THE INSTALLATION OF 

LYMAN PIERSON POWELL 

AS PRESIDENT 

HOBART COLLEGE 
WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE 





FRIDAY, NOVEMBER EOURTEENTH 

NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN 

GENEVA, NEW YORK 



The Installation of 

Lyman Pierson Powell 

As President of Hobart College 
and William Smith College 




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LYMAN PIERSON POWELL 

An abstract from an article written for the Hobart Herald, November 
14th, 1913, by Dr. Talcott Williams. 

Lyman Pierson Powell was bom in Farmington, Dela- 
ware, in 1866. His freshman year in college was spent at 
Dickinson; in 1887 he entered Johns Hopkins University, 
where he received his bachelor's degree in 1890, and was a 
graduate student in History, Jurisprudence and Economics 
from that time until 1892. The following year he was a 
graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. For 
two years following this he was a fellow at the University 
of Pennsylvania and University Extension Lecturer. In 
1895 he entered the Philadelphia Divinity School, from 
which he was graduated in 1897 and was ordained to the 
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the same 
year. 

His first charge was at Ambler, Pennsylvania, a small 
parish still under the care of the Bishop of the Diocese. 
Mr. Powell foimd it worshiping in a small chapel ; he left 
it in a chtirch, paid for at a cost of almost a quarter of a 
million dollars. Fronn Ambler he was called to succeed 
Dr. W. T. Manning in the Church of St. John at Lans- 
downe, a thrifty suburb of Philadelphia, where he remained 
for five years. Here, again, he found a church worshiping 
in a small chapel, and he raised the money for a stone 
chiirch which is a model of semi-rural architecture. With 
the call to St. John's Church, Northampton, Massachu- 
setts, in 1904, Mr. Powell's wider work began. He found 
himself in charge of an endowed church, thronged by 
young women from Smith College. His preaching at 
once drew attention. He became part of the vigorous and 



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stirring life of Central Massachusetts. He came closely 
in contact with the problems of college education of 
women in Smith College, and of college education of men 
in Amherst. He took up local problems, became a regular 
contributor on Saturday to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, 
and was in demand as a speaker. He returned to the 
study of educational problems. This led to a series of 
articles in which he defended the position and attitude of 
colleges both of men and women upon religion, and pointed 
out that many failed to see the strong religious life which 
existed in colleges because they were perpetually looking 
for it in some special form instead of accepting, appreciat- 
ing, approving and aiding it as presented through all our 
colleges by the generation of today. 

The work which Dr. Worcester was doing in the Em- 
manuel Movement led to an experiment locally adapted to 
the special needs of his own parish, and he was one of the 
few wise enough to make it an inflexible rule that he would 
give advice in no case until he had a physician's initiative 
or co-operation. His work in this field, his studies, his 
research on historical and religious subjects led to an 
immediate demand for him in many magazines. He has 
contributed to the Review of Reviews, The Atlantic Monthly, 
The Outlook, Good Housekeeping, The Chatauquan, Harper's 
Weekly, and other magazines. Among his works as an 
author are the following: The History of Education in 
Delaware, 1893 : Family Prayers, 1905; Christian Science, 
A Critical Estimate, 1907 ; The Art of Natural Sleep, 1908 ; 
The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town, 1909 ; 
Heavenly Heretics, 19 10; Religion in Colleges and Uni- 
versities, 191 2. He has also edited the following: His- 
toric Towns of New England, 1898; Historic Towns of 
the Middle States, 1899; Historic Towns of the Southern 



Installation of the President 5 

States, 1900; Historic Towns of the West, 1 901; Current 
Religious Literature, 1902; The Devotional Series, 1905-7. 

In 19 1 2 Mr. Powell was called to New York University 
as Professor of Business Ethics to establish the new depart- 
ment, and it was at the close of his first year of work there 
that he was called to be President of Hobart College and 
William Smith College. His interest in business and civic 
affairs is further manifested by his membership in the 
American Academy of Political Science and the National 
Civic Federation. 

Mr. Powell has been brought in contact with the great 
religious movements of the day ; he has shared its historical 
research; he has appreciated the necessity of carrying 
these questions into magazines and before audiences which 
represent those who are reached neither by churches nor 
by books. He has shared in the work of raising money — 
as a man must who has built two churches ; he has known 
the task of administration — ^as a man does who enters a 
parish with a deficit and puts its finances on a basis which 
leaves it meeting each year's expenses in each year. He 
has come close to the organization of a college in his associa- 
tion as adviser with President Burton of Smith and helper 
in the task of raising a million dollars for that institution. 

He was married in 1899 to Gertrude Wilson, daughter 
of Dr. Francis Wilson of Jenkintown. Mrs. Powell is a 
graduate of Wellesley and was for several years a teacher 
of history in the well-known Girls' Seminary at Troy, and 
has been active in college affairs and social life. Mr. and 
Mrs. Powell have two sons. 



INTRODUCTION 

On August eighth, 1913, ,at a special meeting of the 
Trustees held in Geneva, the Reverend Lyman Pierson 
Powell, then Professor of Business Ethics in New York 
University, was unanimously elected President of Hobart 
CoUege and William Smith College. He assumed his 
duties as President on September first, and after the work 
of the year was properly begun it was decided that the 
formal exercises of Installation shotdd be held on Novem- 
ber foiirteenth, 1913. The Trustees appointed a commit- 
tee consisting of Dean Diirfee and Mr. P. N. Nicholas, 
Secretary of the Board of Trustees, to act in consultation 
with President Powell in making arrangements for the 
installation exercises. This committee was later increased 
by the addition of Dean Turk of William Smith CoUege 
and Professor Bacon. 

The following were the special committees appointed: 

Entertainment — Professor McDaniels, Professor VaU and 
Mr. H. A. Wheat. 

Reception — Mr. G. M. B. Hawley, Professor Woodman 
and Professor Williamson. 

Music — Professor Muirheid. 

Seating — Professor Lansing. 

Banquet and Decorations — Mrs. Durfee, Mrs. Turk and 
Mrs. Little. 

In arranging to extend hospitality to the guests the 
people of Geneva were most kind and opened their homes 
to furnish entertainment. This made an easy problem of 
what would otherwise have been very diffictdt and every 
host and hostess was delighted by the graciousness and 
appreciation of the guests. 



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The morning of November fourteenth dawned cloudy, 
with showers in the early hours, and not until the proces- 
sion was formed in Coxe Hall did it clear enough to make it 
appear wise to march to the Opera House. As the pro- 
cession left the College buildings it was still sprinkling, 
but by the time the Opera House was reached it had 
practically cleared and the rest of the day was all the more 
bright and beautifvd by contrast with the early hours. 
The successful arrangements for the procession were due 
to the work of Herbert R. Moody, Ph.D., Associate 
Professor of Chemistry in the College of the City of New 
York, formerly Professor of Chemistry in Hobart. Pro- 
fessor Moody came to Geneva two days before the Installa- 
tion and worked untiringly on the preparations. 

The Marshals were as follows : 

Chief Marshal, General William Wilson, '76. 

Assistant Marshals from the Faculty, Professor Barney, 
Mr. Harris, Mr. Bamett, Mr. Twining. 

Marshal for Delegates and Guests, Professor Herbert R. 
Moody, Ph.D. 

Alumni Marshals, Lieutenant James W. Wilson, '04; 
Edward John Cook, '95. 

Hobart Student Marshal, Harry Hamlin Hall, '14. 

William Smith Student Marshal, Eleanor Gertrude 
Casterline, '14. 

THE ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 



The President-elect and Reverend John P. Peters, acting 
for the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 



The Recipients of Honorary Degrees. 



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Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Local 
Clergy of all Denominations. 



Delegates and Academic Guests. 



Non-academic Guests. 



The Board of Trustees. 



The Faculty. 



Alumni and Students of Hobart College. 



Aliimnas and Students of WHliam Smith College. 



HoBART College and William Smith College 



MORNING PRAYERS AT TRINITY CHURCH 

The ceremonies connected with the Installation of the 
new President began, in accordance with the President's 
expressed wish, with a brief service in Trinity Church. 

A large number of the alumni and friends of the College 
assembled in the church at nine o'clock. 

The service, iinder the charge of the Rector of the 
parish, the Reverend C. Morton Sills, D.D., consisted of 
shortened Morning Prayer with special Psalm and Lesson 
authorized by the Bishop of the diocese. 

Those taking part were the Right Reverend the Bishop 
of Western New York, who said special prayers for the 
President and for the College ; the Right Reverend Lemuel 
H. Wells, D.D., Bishop of Spokane, who gave the Benedic- 
tion; the Reverend John B. Hubbs, D.D., Chaplain of the 
College, who read the Holy Scriptiires ; and the Rector of 
Trinity Church, who intoned the service, assisted by the 
full choir. 



THE INSTALLATION EXERCISES AT THE 
OPERA HOUSE 

The Trustees, Faculty and academic guests were seated on the platform 
facing the audience. The Reverend John Punnett Peters, Ph.D., Sc.D., 
D.D., acting for the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, presided. 



ORDER OF EXERCISES 
Music 

Invocation 

The Reverend John Brewster Hubbs, D.D., D.C.L., 
Chaplain of Hobart College. 

Installation of the President 

The Reverend John Punnett Peters, Ph.D., Sc. D., 
D.D., 

Acting for the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 

Response by the President 

Addresses of Greeting 

On behalf of the University of the State of New York, 
John Huston Finley, LL.D., Commissioner-elect of 
Education. 
On behalf of the American Colleges and Universities, 
Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D., Dean of the 
School of Journalism, Columbia University, 
Representing the President of Columbia Univer- 
sity. 
On behalf of the Colleges for Women. 

Marion LeRoy Biirton, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., Presi- 
dent of Smith CoUege, Northampton. 
On behalf of the Faculty, 
William Pitt Durfee, Ph.D., Dean of Hobart Col- 
lege. 



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On behalf of the Students of Hobart College, 

Harry Hamlin Hall, President of the Senior Class. 

On behalf of the Students of William Smith College, 
Eleanor Casterline, President of the Senior Class. 

Roll Call of Delegates 

John Archer Silver, Ph.D., Professor of History. 

Installation Address 

The President of the College. 

Music 

Conferring of Honorary Degrees 

Presentation of Candidates by Milton Haight Turk, 
Ph.D., Dean of William Smith College. 

Hymn 

Benediction 

Right Reverend William David Walker, D.D., D.C.L. 
LL.D. 

THE INVOCATION 

Direct us, Lord, this day in all our doings, with Thy 
gracious favour, and futher us with Thy continual help; 
that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in Thee, 
we may glorify Thy holy Name, and finally, by Thy 
mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ, our 
Lord. Amen. 

We glorify, Lord, Thy holy Name for Hobart and 
William Smith Colleges ; for the work they have done in 
training man and women in wisdom and understanding for 
the service of life. Blessed be Thy Name for the happy 
memory of their founders and benefactors. Raise up 
many friends and helpers to lengthen their cords and to 



Instaixation of the President 13 

strengthen their stakes, granting unto them that wisdom 
by which an house is builded and the understanding by 
which it is estabHshed. 

Give Thy grace, we beseech Thee, to Thy servant to 
whom the charge of these Colleges is now committed. So 
replenish him with the truth of Thy doctrine and endue 
him with innocency of life, that his service for the higher 
education of Youth may be for the making of righteous 
men and women, to the glory of Thy great Name and the 
benefit of Thy holy Church. 

Bless, we beseech Thee, the facility of these Colleges; 
Grant that, by example and precept, they may teach those 
committed to their charge that the fear of the Lord is the 
beginning of wisdom, and train them in the way of under- 
standing for the ministry and vocation of a useful life. 

Enlighten, we pray Thee, the minds of the students with 
the light of the everlasting Gospel, graft in their hearts a 
love of the truth, increase in them true religion, stir their 
wills with a faithful diligence, inspire them for a life of 
service for others. 

Bless, we beseech Thee, every institution of learning 
represented here and keep them pure in faith and morals ; 
save t.hem from all error, ignorance, pride, and prejudice, 
guide them with the Spirit of Thy truth, that by their 
endeavors peace and happiness, purity and justice, religion 
and piety may be established among us for all generations. 

Save the State, Lord, and grant that our institutions 
of learning may be true servants in estabhshing righteous- 
ness which alone exalts a nation. All this we ask in the 
Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. 
Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in 



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heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive 
us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against 
us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from 
evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of 
God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all 
evermore. Amen. 

THE INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
By the Reverend John Punnett Peters, D.D., Sc.D., Ph.D. 

You have been chosen by the unanimous vote of the 
Trustees of Hobart College and of its afhliated college, 
William Smith, President of these institutions. Legally 
you are President, and you have been acting as such, win- 
ning already the hearts of those with whom you have come 
into contact. But it is fitting that there should be a 
public recognition of your election with ceremonies be- 
fitting the dignit}^ and importance of the occasion, that in 
the face of the public, in the presence of these institutions, 
of their student bodies, and of these guests representing 
kindred associations of learning, we shotdd proclaim your 
election and endue you with the customary marks of 
office. 

On behalf of the Trustees, first of all, I pledge you our 
fealty. We are a band of busy men scattered far and 
wide. It is difficult for us to give as much time as perhaps 
we should to the work of this institution. All the more we 
look to you as leader to plan out that which is to be done, 
and we assure you that to the best of our ability we will 
hold up your hands, supporting you with our coimsel and 
with our help in such manner as you may call for that help. 
I assure you that you will find in us a heart to help, and. 



Installation of the President 15 

I trust also, a helpfiil attitude of mind as well as heart. 
Here, in S3mibol, is our birthright. This is our certificate 
of birth from the State of New York, — the Charter 
granted by this great State under which we act and by the 
powers of which we have chosen you as our President. 
It is a mark of our great esteem and trust that we hand to 
you the certificate of our birth; to signify that we put 
our life in your hands. 

In the most ancient times it was the custom that a man 
should signify to those not present the attestation of his 
authority, not by signing with his hand, but by a seal. 
That custom has been abandoned for the ordinary man, 
but still continues for corporations. In ancient time also, 
the name signified the very essence of the being, the 
power by which that being might be simimoned and con- 
trolled, and the power by which absent it might express 
itself as present. ^I take it that when I pass to you this 
symbol of our seal I am signifying to you that the essence 
of our being is in your trust. You have the right to 
represent us — our name, which is ourselves — to the 
community. This power, in symbol, we entrust to you in 
handing you the seal. 

And it is always customary to give to him who is 
installed as president of a college or a university a key, 
the mark of his right to open and close. The right to 
close as well as to open ! That you shall close this institu- 
tion against all evil influence; but much more that you 
shall open it ! That you shall open to us paths of progress ; 
that you shall open to us new mansions in the palace of 
knowledge! It is also the key to our treasury; the 
symbol that so far as we are able we will assist you with 
our funds. I pass to you this symbol. And may I add 
something which is perhaps out of the common use in 



i6 HoBART College and William Smith College 

giving the key as a symbol? In Gennany, when two are 
married the one to the other, in the P alter -Abend cere- 
mony which precedes the wedding, a key is given, the 
mark of the intimate relationship by which the heart of 
each is locked and opened only to the other. I venture to 
give that added symbolism to this key which I present to 
you. Such union may there be between you and us ! 

And now, Lyman Pierson Powell, in behalf of the Trus- 
tees, by whose authority I act for the moment, and in 
their name, I proclaim you President of Hobart College 
and of its associated college, William Smith. 

May the blessing of God go with you, without which 
there is no increase, may you have His fear, which is the 
beginning of wisdom, and His love, which is life. 

RESPONSE BY THE PRESIDENT 
Sir: As I accept from your hands these symbols of 
the office you have so reverently designated I accept also 
the solemn obligation they bring with them, and in the 
sight of God and man I dedicate my life to the service of 
Hobart College and its coordinate institution for women, 
William vSmith College, in all humility and all confidence 
that I shall have the hearty cooperation of Trustees, 
Faculty, Students. Alumni and countless friends the whole 
land over, who understand the spirit of this college and the 
purpose its promoters ever keep in mind. 

Dr. Peters : We welcome John Huston Finley, LL.D., 
late President of the City College, New York, now Com- 
missioner-elect of Education of this great State, who will 
make the address of greeting on behalf of the University 
of the State of New York. 



Installation of the President 17 

ADDRESS BY DR. FINLEY 

Mr. President : I am proud to be the first to salute you 
as "Mr. President". 

Ladies and gentlemen : I was invited long ago to say a 
word of greeting for the great State of New York on this 
occasion — a State which is very proud — consciously proud 
— of this little city and its college. 

I have heard some words of regret expressed this morn- 
ing concerning the weather; but I am sure that this is a 
special dispensation of Providence, for if the assembled 
college presidents and professors had seen Geneva and 
Hobart College and William Smith College at their best, 
it would have been impossible to persuade them to go 
contentedly back to their own places. 

I was to bring a word of welcome to this mature young 
man whom I knew in his boyhood, so it seems to me now, — 
this young man whom at least five states, to my certain 
knowledge, have united to produce, to nurture and to 
perfect, beginning with little Delaware and ending with 
that transcendental state which gives partial boundary 
to the State of New York on the east. 

These have all imited to prepare him for the office. In 
some of his aspects he seems to be interstate commerce, 
but until the Supreme Court decides a case which was 
argued before it last Monday, I hesitate to denominate 
him as such. I think he could more accurately be defined 
as a supplemental income tax laid upon the wealth of the 
United States for the special benefit of New York State and 
Hobart College. 

But whatever the analogue may be, I represent the State 
of New York in welcoming him only in that mood or tense 
— and I regret that I have not been able to see Professor 
McDaniels to find out whether it is a mood or tense — 



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which used to be known as the Second Periphrastic, — 
that is, the "about-to-be"; for I am not the "late college 
president" as just stated. I am still a living college presi- 
dent; but I am in the attitude of expectancy of early- 
death as a college president rather than of life as a Com- 
missioner of Education. And so, my yotmg friend and 
president, I, about to die, salute you. And I am sure that 
this fraternal word from one beside you on the arena, from 
one who has already met the beasts of Ephesus, will be 
much more heartening than anything that could come 
from me in another position. 

You hear — if I may without academic offense continue 
that gladiatorial figure — you hear the applause of the 
multitude about you today. You cannot now distinguish 
the voices of the lions of diffictdties and problems that will 
emerge tomorrow, but they will come. They will come! 
And I wish to say in yoiir ear that they are not of Numidian 
fierceness. On the other hand, I must tell you they are 
not as placid as those lions with which Daniel spent a 
memorable night. 

I do not know what advice to give you, my friend, 
because no two lions ever behave in just the same way. 
Lions are as atypical as children. They submit to classifi- 
cation only under compulsion. Mr. Roosevelt, in a very 
interesting article on the African lion, remarked to the 
effect, that it was unsafe with any animal, and especially 
with an animal of such high and varied development as a 
lion, to make any invariable rules; and this is certainly 
true of that more highly developed lion, — the man. The 
danger of advice is that one who has overcome a lion is 
likely to generalize from his particular lion and assimie 
that all lions can be overcome in the same way ; whereas, 
his lion may have been a very feeble one and about to die 



Installation of the President 19 

anyway. I remember with painful distinctness a reproof 
from my father when I was a child because of an over- 
emphatic and almost profane remark that I made about 
the capacity of a lion. I was much more dogmatic than 
Mr. Roosevelt ever was about the African lion, which 
leads me to say that I envy the man who can be dogmatic 
in educational matters. 

But there is one bit of negative advice that I may give 
you, sir, — one that I inherited from one of our friends, one 
who was with us in Johns Hopkins University and after- 
ward became a college president — given to me when I was 
beginning to be a college president twenty-one years ago. 
He sent me this message, "Don't give up," or rather he 
used a more emphatic and less classical expression, one 
that smacks of the later gladiatorial period, "Don't throw 
up the sponge." That is negative advice, but you will 
need it, I fancy, at times. Remember what William James 
said, that very few of us live up to our limitations, or even 
within sight of our limitations. 

But as president of that incorporal imiversity in which 
all the corporal colleges and other educational institutions 
of this state live and move and have their being, I wish 
to say one word that will, perhaps, in time, be of more 
help than this negative word. It is an interesting but 
regretted etymological fact that a word which was used 
by the Greeks to denominate the state — that is, the city 
state — has come to have a repressive and regulative 
significance or connotation only, — ttoAis has become police. 
To be sure, there is another related noun, — politics; but 
that noun has also become somewhat narrowed in the 
course of years, and it has become somewhat demeaned too 
in our country. A few weeks ago, when I was introduced 
to the greatest authority on political matters in England, 



20 HoBART College and William Smith College 

my friend introducing me, explained that my new office was 
a political office. I qmckly tried to correct him, but he 
said, "I mean in the largest sense." And so this office is 
to be a political office, I hope, in the largest sense. Educa- 
tional policing is necessary. It is as necessary as public 
order, but it is necessary only that there may be the freest 
and fiillest development of the individual, of the individual 
institution, and of the individual communities in this state. 
And so I look upon this great University, — ^this invisible, 
all-embracing university with which I shall have the 
honor to be associated soon, if I live long enough, as a 
constructive, most highly spiritual force in the State. 

In the cosmogony of Lucretius, the poet, it was asstimed 
that every object gave off constantly images of itself, idols 
of itself, so that the air, the atmosphere of the earth, or 
the inhabited parts of the earth, were filled with millions 
of these images that passed to and fro, to the senses of men, 
and then there went out from men the images of their 
thoughts, traversing these other images or films; and 
finally these were all traversed by the majestic images of 
the thoughts of the gods. I thank the poet for that illus- 
tration, for that visualization of the thoughts of this 
State which will come into this place, mingling with the 
images that are given forth by this beautiful environment, 
and the images given forth by the aspirations of those 
who abide in the colleges. 

But I cannot forget that I am a college president. I, 
about to die, Mr. President, again salute you. I wish that 
my discamate official spirit, when it becomes discamate, 
might find reincarnation in such an environment as this 
and in such a young, active body as this. But I am too 
late. I did not resign soon enough. The body is already 
filled with the official spirit, so I shall have to seek else- 



Installation of the President 21 

where. But I give you as I go a prayer, at any rate. It 
is not, I am aware, in proper form, but I will ask the 
Bishop — Bishop Talbot — with his ecclesiastical and liter- 
ary skill to make it as it should be. It is a prayer that I 
wrote many years ago — ten years ago — ^when I became a 
college president here in the East, and I have been trying 
to live it since. I shall have to make a new prayer now, 
and so I give this old prayer over to you : 

"O Lord, help me not to put above sound learning 
numbers, endowments, equipments, material things or 
aught else. Help me to realize that these scores of young 
men (and you will have to add to it young women) are not 
merely awkwrad (you will have to add comely) — are not 
merely awkward and comely pieces of mortal clay, but that 
they are immortal spirits passing in these bodies across this 
earth from one eternity to the other. Give me daily 
strength and wisdom to lead them on." 

Dr. Peters: Pardon me Commissioner-elect. But 
remember that I was trained in the School of the Prophets 
and in my vision I saw the Commissioner-elect of Educa- 
tion already the President of all the institutions of this 
great State and, hence, forgot the presidency of the college 
which he still holds. 

On behalf of the American colleges and universities, 
Talcott Williams, Doctor of Humane Letters Doctor of 
Laws, Dean of the School of Journalism, Colimibia Univer- 
sity, representing the President of Colimibia University. 

ADDRESS BY DR. WILLIAMS 
President Powell, on behalf of the head of Columbia 
University and all those who in one position and another 
direct the education of men, I am directed by the President 



22 HoBART College and William Smith College 

of Coltmibia University to extend to you the right hand 
of fellowship in your new position. 

President Powell, ladies and gentlemen: This great 
public occasion on which an institution looks back over a 
century and sees a new head is inevitably to me as much 
personal as public. If you have known a man in his 
undergraduate days ; if you have seen him as one of that 
group of brilliant historians who gathered in the closing 
eighties about one now gone but whose influence lives 
wherever history is written, — Professor Herbert Adams of 
Johns Hopldns, \vith what love and pride would he have 
seen this day, if you have seen your friend come to the 
moment in which history itself was but the larger inspira- 
tion and revelation of the divine; if you have watched 
three fruitful ministries, and at last stand representing a 
great university at the culminating moment of his life, 
you are sharing one of the few and memorable moments 
in which the friendship of years and the mutual loves of 
work are merged in a sense of a great public occasion as he 
is installed, like Jacob, to lead two flocks over the Jordan 
of education to meet the rough-handed Esau of this world ; 
and as with the Patriarch, I note that of these two flocks, 
the flock of the elder Leah of Hobart and the younger 
Rachel of William Smith, that the younger is, as of old, 
the comelier. 

I stand here as the smallest of the units which create a 
great university, the School of Journalism, endowed, as its 
endowment runs, to make better journalists, to make 
better newspapers, to serve the state the better. Ser^dce 
to the State and the Nation is the basis upon which the 
higher education of the American people was established, 
and it remains the test by which it must be judged and 
the result by which it must be justified. 



Installation of the President 23 

American college graduates niunber today two hundred 
thousand. They constitute about one per cent, of the adult 
male population of the United States, and women gradu- 
ates are considerably less than one-half of one per cent, 
of the adult women of the United States. Those who 
today become college graduates are already forty-two 
per cent, women, and long before the graduates of the 
college for women associated with Hobart retiirn for 
their twentieth reunion, women will furnish two out of 
three of those who receive their baccalaureate degrees. 

The body of 200,000 college graduates stands as I have 
said but one per cent, of the adult male population of 
the United States. This one per cent, furnishes one-half 
of those who for various reasons are recorded in "Who's 
Who. ' ' Of the clergy, taking all the denominations, about 
one-quarter are college graduates, and taking the three or 
four denominations which lay stress upon the education 
of their clergy, from seventy to eighty per cent. Of the 
lawyers entering their calling in the last decade, twenty 
per cent, are college graduates taking the entire country, 
and the same proportion for our medical schools is over 
ten per cent. If eastern institutions be selected it is 
true of all the leading medical schools and all the leading 
law schools that they require a college degree. 

Forty years ago the proportion in law and medical 
schools ran in the east even as low as five and ten per cent. 
It rose twenty years ago at Harvard to forty per cent. 
Today the best appointed medical institutions are gradu- 
ating only college graduates. As this process goes on, 
the overwhelming majority in the professions, before two 
decades have passed, will be men with a college education. 
The same change has taken place in our courts, particu- 
larly in the Federal coiuts. It has come in Congress, 



24 HoBART College and William Smith College 

where the increase of college men is the most conspicuous 
change of the last twenty years; it is apparent in state 
legislatures; our great business corporations year by year 
draw from college. What is true of "Who's Who" is 
already becoming trae of the great body of active service 
for the state, civil and corporate, professional and in 
business. That college share of the adult male population 
which furnishes only one per cent, of the total, supplies 
nearly one-half of the directing force of the American 
people. While statistics are unavailable, every joiimalist 
knows that nowhere is this change more rapid, more 
constant or more sure than in journalism. 

After two centuries in which the American college and 
university furnished a minute share of the professions, 
the service of the state and the direction of material enter- 
prises; our higher education in all its various fonns has 
already reached a point at which it furnishes nearly one- 
half, and is destined to increase this share. 

It is plain that the duty of the college has become one of 
training for work rather than for mere learning — for affairs, 
rather than for teaching. Since its graduates play this 
part in the direction of affairs, it is evident that whatever 
else is taught, the man who receives his degree should leave 
schooled in the habits of assiduous, industrious, unremit- 
ting work, devotion to his appointed task for its own 
sake, unbroken by any distraction, and able to resist 
every temptation to any activity outside of his chosen 
field. 

This is the key to success in the world's affairs, and 
unless it is taught in college and acquired there, the college 
graduate will be at a disadvantage with those who have 
learned this lesson in office, store and factory, under the 
stem taskmistress of industry and business. 



Installation of the President 25 

Acctiracy is the second need of success. Unless college 
examinations seciire this, they have failed to prepare their 
graduates for this great task of public direction, for 
accuracy is the basis of the relations of men. 

But not learning, not industry, not accuracy, can give 
this one per cent, its own half of the greater tasks of the 
Republic, unless the college also gives to its graduates 
idealism and confidence in the things that are unseen 
rather than in the things that are seen, For when in "Who's 
Who" or in any other associated list of the activities of 
men the college graduates are marshaled, they are not 
present as the owners of vast fortunes ; they do not claim 
their share in the direction of material industries ; they do 
not appear in the paths where the vaster rewards of the 
mechanic forces of the commimities are lavished. They 
stand instead at the tasks and posts which speak to a 
doubting and ignorant world of eternity and the life to 
come, of justice, of healing, of mercy, of education, and of 
the inspiration of knowledge. 

It is this share which this small body, so minute in its 
numbers as against the whole — so great in its completed 
task and service — is called upon to discharge. And the 
responsibility of the college and the imiversity in their 
training is not primarily to the man whom it sends out 
after fotir happy years spent in a college like this, but to 
the fit service of the state. 

Dr. Peters: I do not think I shall be guilty of an 
indiscretion in saying to you that he who has just spoken, 
an old and intimate friend of our new President, is one to 
whom we of Hobart owe much for the help that he gave 
us in obtaining President Powell. And it was, therefore, 
especially gracious on the part of Columbia University to 



26 HoBART College and William Smith College 

designate Dr. Talcott Williams as its representative on 
this occasion. 

It is on behalf of the Trustees particularly in their 
capacity as representing William Smith College for women 
that I welcome here as the next speaker the bringer of 
an address of greeting on behalf of the colleges for women, 
Marion LeRoy Burton, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of 
Divinity, Doctor of Laws, President of Smith College, 
Northampton. 

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT BURTON 
It seems most fitting, upon this auspicious day for 
President Powell and Hobart College, to speak of one 
phase of the administrative problem. We have come here 
today to inaugurate an administrator. Our presence 
indicates our interest in this rather unique field of service. 
Because the college or university administrator touches in 
turn the student body, the faculty, the graduates, the 
trustees, the townspeople and the public at large, there is 
in reality no one here who is not interested in, if not deeply 
concerned with, the task of administration. But at this 
hour we must limit ourselves strictly to one aspect of the 
question, if we are to utilize properly, the brief time alloted 
to us. I wish, therefore, to consider what might be 
termed "The True Administrative Point of View." 

A common attitude to college administration, if correctly 
and briefly stated, may help to throw into proper light 
what we wish to describe as the more worthy and satisfac- 
tory point of view. It is frequently asserted that the 
office of the college administrator demands first of all a 
beggar. The term is clearly intended to describe a most 
disagreeable and nerve-racking function. It is likewise 
repeatedly assumed that administrative work kills a man's 



Installation of the President 27 

scholarship. This statement is also based upon the 
assumption that the noblest path of service is a life 
devoted to scholarly investigation and literary production. 
Again, the work of the college executive is often character- 
ized as a continuous round of petty details which diffuses 
one's nervous and intellectual energy. This characteriza- 
tion is grounded upon the assumption that the details 
of life are intrinsically bad. In short, a common attitude 
to executive work is that it is simply a necessary evil that 
must be endiired. 

Now over against this interpretation let us endeavor to 
set what we conceive to be the only true point of view for 
the administrator. The task of maintaining the financial 
existence of a large institution is not an easy one. To 
form an accurate budget is difficult, to live according to its 
limitations is sometimes trying, but any man who enjoys 
a problem must find some satisfaction in the solution of 
this one which is so vital to every man in the university. 
The heart of this financial question is that it is a joy to 
"beg" for a college. Why should it be considered unpleas- 
ant to have a very active part in helping men and women 
to find the most satisfying use for their money ? It should 
be counted a real privilege to have the opportunity to 
show to a man or woman of means one of the very best 
agencies for the transmuting of wealth into character. 
Nothing after all is more vital than this — ^to effect the 
actual release of money to serve forever the best interests 
of truth and life. This is a task of dignity, of self-respect 
and of soul-satisfying joy. 

Again, the college president knows that satisfaction 
born of the neat balancing of scholarship and action. 
Mere scholarship, pure reason, unadulterated theory soon 
reveal their narrowness and onesidedness. Unbroken 



28 HoBART College and William Smith College 

activity, endless con-espondence, continuous consulta- 
tions, unrelieved hours of struggle with complicated 
situations requiring quick and precise judgment, inevitably 
lead to weariness and dissatisfaction. To the college 
president comes the opportunity of combining the spirit 
of scholarship with the work of the office. No one envies 
more than the present speaker the college professor, who 
can give himself unstintedly to his o^vn field and be counted 
among those who have expanded the borders of thought. 
But President Thwing put his finger on the point when he 
wrote: "The college President, who is as are most college 
Presidents, at once an executive and somewhat of a 
scholar, is doing the most delightful work that can be 
done." 

But this is not all. Real executive work requires the 
highest form of constnictive genius. It requires as 
much, if not more, intellectual originality, careful, colorless, 
scientific weighing of evidence, painstaking discrimination 
between the various elements in a complicated situation, 
subtle appreciation of shades of meaning, to be a college 
administrator as it does to write doctors' dissertations or 
to evolve new aspects of tmth. The man who fails to 
recognize this fact misses the joy of admiinist ration. He 
has failed to see its glory! Unless his soul is gripped by 
the appeal to solve satisfactorily the complex problems in 
human relationships as they arise day by day in the work 
of the college, unless he sees and feels the vital meaning of 
it all, he is the tool and not the master of his task. 

But above it all lies the noble duty of helping to create, 
and to maintain in an unique way the ideals and standards 
of the institution, to make the whole school breathe an 
atmosphere which is ptirer, more invigorating, more life- 
giving. It is the inspiring task of suffusing the whole 



Installation of the President 29 

life of the school with a personal touch which replaces 
institutionalism with human interest, and mechanical 
organization with the power of personality. The true 
administrative point of view is that which looks upon 
every phase of the task and every detail of the work as the 
part of a consistent whole which demands the very best 
that a man has at every point, a grand totality which 
transcends all others in its opportunities for real life. 

Dr. Peters: Every Hobart man honors and loves 
William Pitt Durfee, Doctor of Philosophy, Dean of 
Hobart College, who brings the word of greeting and good 
will on behalf of the faculty. 

ADDRESS BY DEAN DURFEE 
It is my pleasant duty. President Powell, to bid you 
welcome on behalf of my colleagues of the Faculty, to 
welcome you from a position in a great university to the 
headship of a small college. You are yourself the graduate 
of a great university — Johns Hopkins — ^from which I am 
proud to hold my doctor's degree. You are acquainted 
with the methods and work of the university ; the volumes 
and studies you have published bear witness to this 
familiarity. But you will agree with me that the heart 
and essence of the university and the college are the same. 
The heart of each lies in its corps of instructors and pro- 
fessors; in the impression which they make on the student 
body. Together they are a hive of intellectual workers 
to a common end — ^the illumination and the betterment 
of mankind. You wiU agree, also, that the college, 
smaller or larger, has its own distract and important 
function, its own niche and sphere, in the general machia- 
ery of education. But without men, without teachers 



30 HoBART College and Williaivi Smith College 

and leaders, the college or the university is a dead mass 
of wheels and apparatus, however massive and jnposing 
it may be. 

I welcome you, therefore, on behalf of the living heart 
of the college. I may say that we believe thoroughly in 
our work and its importance. We believe also in you and 
your leadership. We offer you our aid with a certain 
confidence and self-respect — ^we invite you to no bankrupt 
undertaking. We believe that our sphere is as inter- 
mediaries between the secondary schools and the univer- 
sity; we believe in our standards and we hope to maintain 
them with honor and sincerity. This large attendance 
of expert educators is a tribute partly to yourself — partly 
to our own worth and integrity of purpose. Many of 
them are our friends and neighbors; they know us and our 
work. We are willing to abide by their judgment of us. 

Every college has the right to feel poorer than its 
aspirations and ambitions, to ask perennially, like Oliver 
Twist, for more. We fully recognize our needs in various 
directions. It will be your first duty, President Powell, 
to study our problems and to help us in achieving our 
ideals. We congratulate our neighbors, Rochester and 
Colgate and Smith, on their recent good fortune, good 
fortime which we hope to emulate and deserve. 

Dr. Peters : In this age of advancing democracy, we 
are learning more and more that no government is stable 
without the consent and the participation of those governed ; 
that the work of education is not complete without a 
hearty agreement and cooperation on the part of the 
student body. I welcome, therefore, on behalf of the 
Trustees, a speaker who brings a greeting on behalf of 
the students of Hobart College, Harry Hamlin Hall, 
President of the Senior Class. 



Installation of the President 31 

ADDRESS BY MR. HALL 
"President Powell: In our short acquaintance this fall 
we have come to appreciate deeply your sympathy in 
approaching our undergraduate problems and interests; 
your generous consultation of our preferences, even our 
prejudices and your helpful friendship and guidance both 
in our work and in our pleasures. Because you liave made 
us feel that you need them and you trust their worth, 
our cooperation and our support of your policies for the 
college will be the worthier. You have increased in every 
student the sense of personal responsibility and affection 
for the college. The motto you gave us in yoiir opening 
address: "Each for all and all for each," has already 
borne fruit not only in greater good fellowship among the 
four classes in college, but in better understanding than 
ever between the students and the administration. As you 
have led us to realize that you will strive with our help and 
for our sake to make Hobart the "best small college in the 
land," so in truth will we for your sake strive to help you, 
realize those high ideals. 

Dr. Peters: We are very proud as Trustees of the 
development of our William Smith College, of the showing 
that its body of students makes today after so short a 
term of existence. We welcome, on behalf of the Trustees, 
as the next speaker, to represent the students of William 
Smith College in bringing greetings and promise of support 
to our new President, Eleanor Cascerline, President of the 
Senior Class. 

ADDRESS BY MISS CASTERLINE 
With a feeling of deep satisfaction, we, the under- 
graduates of William Smith College, are gathered here this 



32 HoBART College and William Smith College 

morning to extend a welcome to our new President. It is 
our earnest desire to make that welcome twofold — to wel- 
come you, not with words alone, but with works. 

We are a very young college, and are, as yet, in a 
plastic state. We need the hand of a counsellor and friend 
to mold us; to form us into an institution which may 
embody the ideals of true womanhood. 

It is oiu- wish that the ties which bind William Smith 
College to its President be not the ties of duty but rather 
of understanding and love, that we become so closely 
associated with him that vmconsciously the thought of one 
will bring to mind the other. Already we feel that we can 
rely upon your sympathy ; already we know that we have, 
in you, one who, with true insight, can point out to us our 
way. 

To you we pledge our unswerving loyalty. May you 
always find us ready to work with you and for you in order 
that those high ideals, to which we know that you have 
always been devoted, may be fulfilled. Our respect for 
you is very great. We deeply desire your good will. It is 
with affection that, in the name of the undergraduates of 
William Smith College, I bid you welcome. 

At this point there were read by Professor Bacon the following letters 
and telegrams as representative of the many messages which had been 
received: 

Letters 

The White House, Washington. 
My dear Powell : September 17, 19 13. 

I wish most sincerely and unaffectedly that it were 
possible for me to attend your inaugioration as President 
of Hobart, but it is literaUy out of the question for me to 
do so. The pressure of public business here upon me is 



Installation of the President 33 

constant. I am just in the stage of learning VN^hat and how 
much I have to do, and so I have determined this first year 
to go nowhere where my public duties do not plainly 
command me to go. 

I wish you all happiness in your new work. 

Cordially and sincerely yours, 
WooDROW Wilson. 
Dr. Lyman P. Powell, 
Hobart College, 
Geneva, New York. 

New Haven, Conn., 
September 29, 19 13. 
My dear President Powell: 

I have your kind letter of September 27th. It wotild 
give me great pleasure to attend yoiir installation, but the 
truth is that I am swamped with engagements, and that if 
I would keep any of them I must not make any more. I 
congratulate you on coming to the head of the College, and 
I wish for you the highest success in the great work before 
you. Sincerely yoiirs, 

Wm. H. Taft. 
President Lyman P. Powell, 
Hobart College, 
Geneva, N. Y. 

Telegrams 

Wichita, Kan., 
November 13, 1913. 
Rev. Dr. Lyman P. Powell: 

President, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 
Regret inability to attend your installation. Please 
accept hearty felicitations; dear old Hobart is to be 
congratulated; the Lord preserve thy going out and thy 
coming in; peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness 
within thy palaces ; for my brethren and companions sake, 
I will wish thee prosperity. 

Percy T. Fenn. 



34 HoBART College and William Smith College 

New York, November 12, 19 14. 
Rev. Lyman P. Powell: 

President, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 
Matters have arisen which require my presence here on 
Friday, regret keenly that I cannot be present at your 
inauguration ceremonies. Warm congratulations and 
good wishes to you and to the college. 

William T. Manning, 

27 West 25th St. 



Utica, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1913. 
Dr. Lyman P. Powell, 

President, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 
Congratulations. Sorry I cannot be with you today. 

Chas. T. Olmsted, 
Bishop of Central New York, 



Boston, Mass. 
To Professor Arthur A. Bacon, 

Secretary of the Faculty and of the Installation Com- 
mittee : 
My best wishes to President Powell for a successful 
administration and for a happy life in Geneva. 

Langdon C. Stewardson. 



The roll call of delegates was read by Professor Silver. As each name 
was read the delegate rose in response to his name. 



Installation of the President 35 

Dr. Peters : Do not think it strange that no addresses 
have been provided of greeting and welcome from the 
alumni of Hobart College. That part will be done later 
in a more informal and personal way. 

The next on the programme is that for which many of 
us are waiting with great eagerness, the installation 
address by the President of our College. 

THE INSTALLATION ADDRESS 
THE TRUE COLLEGE 

To respond in fitting terms to the graceful and gracious 
words to which we have been listening lies beyond the 
province and the possibility of the hour. In all humility, 
therefore, I hasten on to heed the counsel of a friend who, 
when he found that this day was to dawn, bade me 
remember that my words should come from the heart as 
well as from the head and should reveal the personality 
as clearly as the pedagogue. 

The true college is my theme. Relatively small Uke 
Hobart the true college may be, or relatively large like 
Dartmouth. Like Hobart it may have a coordinate 
institution for women of the type of William Smith, or it 
may like Amherst keep open house to men alone. It 
may in Hobart fashion trace back its pedigree almost a 
himdred years or it may be the creation of the other day. 

Like Hobart it may be beholden, as the trustees recently 
avowed, to the church and have a Chaplaincy long since 
endowed by a good Churchman, though welcoming all 
types of Christians and classified by experts as in a large 
sense undenominational, or it may follow in the tracks of 
such as would mle out all organized reUgious life. What- 
ever its history or environment, it will prove its right at 
last to be entitled a true college by meeting every test 



36 HoBART College and William Smith College 

men can apply of true religion and of true morality. It 
will promote the highest interests of the students. It 
will try to build up character as well as scholarships. Men 
and women will go out from its halls stronger, better, 
finer and more useful for tarrying an impressionable while 
beneath the covert of its love and reverence. They will be 
marked men, marked women, wherever they may go, 
whatever they may do. The world will take note of them 
that they have sojourned with the true and beautiful and 
good, and no apology will be offered or solicitation made to 
forget past years spent in the atmosphere of Churchly 
culture. 

This brings me to the next point I would emphasize. 
The true college must be cultural as well as Christian. 
The true college has no quarrel with the university or the 
technical school. It recognizes the abundant room there 
is in this expansive land for various types of colleges and 
universities. At the same time, it steadily insists upon 
a cultural background for every form of specialization. 
It is ever ready to shiver a lance with those who would 
eliminate the cultural college in order that men may make 
haste to prepare for business. It is sure that the main 
business of life is not business at all, but life. To those 
who think the cultural college postpones the day when 
men can make a living for themselves and also for a family, 
the cultural college replies that it should not be made to 
bear more than its due share of the responsibility. 

There is, of course, lost motion somewhere in our 
educational process. Men ought to be ready for life's 
battle at an earlier age. The serious and sinister problems 
precipitated upon us, sometimes because of the undue 
postponement of the married life, ought in consequence 
in large part to disappear. But the true college holds that 



Installation of the President 37 

some improvement might be made in the grades and the 
high school. With the University of Chicago in its elemen- 
tary trial school reducing without hurt the eight grades to 
seven, and with the increasing disposition noticeable on 
every hand to end the duplication of the last year of the 
high school and the first year in college, the time may not 
be far remote when students may matriculate, not as now 
in many an excellent institution, at eighteen and two- 
thirds years, but between the sixteenth and seventeenth 
year, and be ready for the technical training at least by 
twenty-one. 

But whatever questions clamor for an answer, the true 
college would go on its cultural way in godlike unconcern, 
making those committed to its loving care ready for life 
in the large or for that technical training which marks off 
the specialist. 

Its cultural way? What does that connote? Certainly 
a well proportioned course of study. In this day when 
Greek is rarely taught in fitting schools and some practical 
men are beginning to look at Latin with an auspicious and 
a dropping eye, in the true college there will always be 
a place for Greek and Latin as well as for the modem 
languages, which never need a special plea. For if cul- 
ture rather than immediate efficiency, be the true end of 
the highest type of education, Greek in which the broadest 
and best thinking of the past comes down to us, not only 
in the classics, but also in the Gospels, requires no defense 
before this serious minded audience. "Good wine needs 
no bush." If true scholarship can never be content with 
second hand impressions, Latin, too, without which no 
one can really know English, must ever have a lasting 
place with Greek ; for as one who knows whereof he speaks 
has said of Virgil, "It is not easy to recall any great poet 



38 HoBART College and William Smith College 

since Virgil's day who has not caught some inspiration 
from him." 

Mathematics has no cause to fear displacement. Mathe- 
matics is unescapable. It is an exact science and yet its 
data ever change. It develops functional thinking in 
respect to groups instead of individual facts, and yet the 
test of accuracy may be applied at any place. Beside all 
this, like history and literature, it trains the imagination. 
And who would be so rash as to claim a ciilture with no 
room in it for the full sweep of imagination in its most 
constructive mood. 

The sciences also are necessary for ends of more signi- 
ficance than those of mere technique. The scientific 
method, whatever field of science one may choose, makes 
in these days a contribution to true ciilture which cannot 
be disputed. The specific application of a science lies 
beyond the realm of culture. It is a necessity to business 
efficiency. A living often is impossible without it. But 
before one thus applies the science which he knows to 
pragmatic ends, he must see it in its larger relationships. 
He must have a scientific setting for whatever he may do, 
and it is one of the many duties of the true college to make 
siire that no man flings himself into the struggle for 
existence without the background and the method science 
furnishes in any of its various departments. 

And as for literature and philosophy, history and 
economics, and related subjects, brevity would cease to be 
the sotd of wit, were I to attempt to deal with them in all 
detail. They amply justify themselves. Almost every- 
body knows they furnish the key to unlock the problems 
of today. They insure that every cultured man shall 
touch life at many points. They stand between the past 
and the present, explaining the one, interpreting the other. 



Installation of the President 39 

They bring man face to face with the whole range of human 
interest. They give him a grasp of present day reaHties. 
No man of sound judgment would deny them a large place 
in any scheme which cultiu-e may devise. One in these 
days is no educated man who has not at least tasted of 
these waters, though he runs great risk who does not 
drink deep of them. A college is not cultural which 
would omit such subjects from its schedule. Even though 
the words may sound a little strange in this new connec- 
tion I would recall to your attention the Platonic proverb : 
"Many there be who carry the wand, but few are the 
mystics." And I would add in faith and confidence that 
our age with its new and compHcated questions to be 
answered demands of every true college, that it furnish to 
the world mystics trained in this modem lore as well as in 
Platonic groves. 
As I have been endeavoring to picture the true college, 
Jhave not been unmindful that play as well as work has 
place in any plan for culture. Athletics have frequently 
perhaps been overdone. Professionalism has too often 
given a wrong twist to college sport. "Supporting the 
team" has sometimes separated by an artificial line the 
sheep from the goats, and in the presence of the stoutly 
muscled, lulled to inactivity the vast majority who need 
that all-round training which used to be summed up in the 
trite phrase: "The sound mind in the sound body." 

But the situation must be faced precisely as it is. 
Athletics stand among the healthiest of himian interests. 
They are an occupation as lifelong as literature or eco- 
nomics. When at play a man is often most completely 
self -revealing. To call a man a good sportsman is to allow 
to him the qualities of pluck, persistence, fair play, self- 
restraint; and whatever can produce these qualities is in 



40 HoBART College and William Smith College 

essence cultural, no matter what temptations may sur- 
round it. 

Let me go a little farther and insist that football, free 
from all professionalism and played with all one's might, 
whether victory or defeat crowns effort, or baseball with 
every play thought out and executed as it is these days in 
and out of college, makes a demand as urgent on the mind 
as on the body. Many with no natural gift for classroom 
work find in athletics the mental training, as the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin dares admit, which they never find else- 
where, and when they go out into life, go to do justly and 
walk himibly as siu-ely as their fellows who may indoors 
have excelled them. No man with a knowledge of the 
educational situation can be blind to facts so obvious. 
No one with the higher interests in view of the true college, 
would dispute the statement. The duty, therefore, is at 
least to understand the situation and to act upon it, and 
athletics under the same sane direction as other academic 
interests and by all participated in, ought to have, and will 
at last receive, the precise recognition they deser^^e in the 
scheme of the true college. 

There are many other things one would like to say. 
To attempt, however, to say them all on this occasion, 
woiild, I fear, give a local application which as host, I have 
no right to give to that passage in the Odyssey which 
informs us that Ulysses in bringing together the materials 
for the building of his bed around the olive tree "bored 
them all." 

But there are a few things which I must say. The true 
college has in it more than students, even though the rest 
of us exist for them alone. I would plead for the teaching 
staff, that they have a freer hand to do their best for those 
committed to their care. By more than one of our dis- 



Installation of the President 41 

tinguished visitors a new note has of late been struck 
in education. Instead of raising money to extend those 
"incredible acres of technical apparatus" which Arnold 
Bennett found this whole land over, two presidents here 
today (and perhaps more) have been leading in securing 
large sums to increase the salaries of those on whom the 
burden at last rests to keep an institution true to its high 
calling. They have made it easier for other colleges to do 
what everybody knows ought to be done. They have 
blazed a way which others in increasing numbers will be 
taking with the passing years. 

It is to the credit of teachers in schools, colleges, and 
universities, that they seem willing to allow their salaries 
to remain low while the cost of living steadily increases. 
For sacrifice is beautiful, and the Father of all prefers it, 
we are told on Scriptural authority, to incense and burnt 
offerings. But it is hardly creditable to those of us who 
do not teach that, like the Httle ones overheard whispering 
to their weary mother, we should by our indifference to the 
needs of those who usually know our childem better than 
we know them, habitually appear to say: "We do not 
care how much you suffer, provided you will only live." 

I plead, then, that the time has come to consider the 
teacher before the material equipment and the buildings of 
the college, and that this whole land over there should be 
"one common wave" lifting compensation to the point 
at which teachers, like bricklayers and chaiiffeurs, whose 
interests are safeguarded by unions, may live normal 
lives, may marry and have children of their own to teach, 
may buy books without always stopping to count pennies, 
may travel with a care-free mind, may mingle freely in the 
social circle without xmdue strain on income, and may give 
of their best to one another and to students with no thought 



42 HoBART College and William Smith College 

for the morrow. New occasions do teach new duties, and 
if this word, which every trustee within my hearing heartily 
endorses, I am siire, should even imperceptibly accelerate 
an3rwhere the movement which has been magnificently 
started elsewhere, it will well have been worth saying. 

With one word I would close, and that woj-d shall be 
spoken altogether from the heart. In the presence of 
God and this company, the thirteenth President of Hobart 
College has dedicated himself to the service of Hobart 
College and its coordinate institution, William Smith. 
Thirteen is regarded by the superstitious as an unlucky 
number. To make it lucky requires more effort than one 
man can exert. Luck comes with cooperation. Its 
other name is team work. The new President of Hobart 
College and William Smith College bespeaks the coopera- 
tion of all in any way concerned. Trustees and faculty 
and students are already giving it in generous measiires. 
Alumni have a peculiar responsibility, which they surely 
will not disavow. Friends everywhere of Hobart College 
will join us in renewed appreciation of the blessed heritage, 
preserved throughout the years by twelve good men and 
true, and handed on to me by a distinguished predecessor. 
They will help us make our college, now two-fold and 
placed with singular felicity in this charming little city, 
the true college it may in all respects become. 

President, trustees, faculty, students, alimini, friends 
will do their best for the college of their love, — ^never once 
forgetting that "except the Lord build the house, they 
labor in vain that build it." 

The candidates for Honorary Degrees were then presented by Professor 
Turk. The President conferred the degrees, using the following words: 

For the reasons already stated and by virtue of the 
authority vested in me by the Board of Trustees of 



Installation of the President 43 

Hobart College, I hereby confer on you the degree of . . . 
and admit you to all the rights, honors, and priv- 
ileges appertaining thereto, and direct that your name be 
forever enrolled as an alumnus of Hobart College, (or al- 
umna of William Smith College. 

The words of introduction were as follows: 

For the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters I present 
to you Miss Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, Professor of 
History in Wellesley College, Bachelor of Laws and Master 
of Arts. Already the author of several volumes on 
English History, Miss Kendall has recently published a 
brilliant account of an intrepid journey in remote China. 
Hobart College is happy to welcome her and to confer upon 
her the second honorary degree given in the name of 
William Smith College. 

For the degree of Doctor of Science I present to you 
John Nolen of Cambridge, Bachelor of Philosophy of the 
University of Pennsylvania, Master of Arts of Harvard. 
While others have busied themselves with "manners, 
climates, councils, governments," Mr. Nolen's care has 
been the "cities of men." Realizing how greatly in our 
day the town makes the man, he has wedded science to 
art in the service of municipal good-living. His compre- 
hensive plans for model cities are now being worked out 
in all parts of this country. We voice today the gratitude 
of every trainer of youth to one whose name in an especial 
sense is enshrined in the homes of his countrymen. 

For the degree of Doctor of Science I present to you 
Charles Harrison Frazier, Dean of the Medical School 
of the University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Arts and 
Doctor of Medicine of that University. By his exhaustive 
studies on the physiology, anatomy and pathology of the 
brain and nervous system Dr. Frazier has brought under 



44 HoBART College and William Smith College 

control deep-seated diseases hitherto regarded as incurable; 
while as a foremost citizen of Philadelphia he has led a 
crusade for civic bettennent and public health. As 
surgeon, teacher, student and writer. Dr. Frazier has 
already earned the description which this college now 
confers as a degree. 

For the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology I present 
to you Kerr Duncan MacMillan, President of Wells 
College, Bachelor of Arts of the University of Toronto, 
Bachelor of Divinity of Princeton Theological Seminary, 
who has gained distinction as a teacher of Semitic Language 
and Church History at Princeton, and as an effective 
writer in his chosen field. Having recently had the 
pleasure of welcoming Mr. MacMillan to this neighbor- 
hood as the head of a large and charming academic family, 
Hobart College now asks the privilege of receiving him 
as an adopted son. 

For the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology I present 
to you the Reverend Thomas Benjamin Berry, Warden 
of the DeLancey Divinity School, Master of Arts. With 
the arduous duties of a city rectorship, to which was ad- 
ded no small amount of voluntary missionary labor, Mr. 
Berry has joined a steadily increasing devotion to schol- 
arship in the field of Theology. In 1909 he was called 
to the Wardenship which he has held to the great satis- 
faction of his students and to the equal gratification of 
his neighbors and fellow teachers in the faculty of this 
college. 

For the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology, in absentia, 
I present to you the Reverend Hugh Latimer Burleson, 
Bachelor of Arts of Racine College, Secretary of the 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church. Mr. Burleson is one of ioxnr sons 



Installation of the President 45 

of a devoted missionary who all have followed their 
father's calling. Three are aliimni of this college; the 
eldest we now adopt, rejoicing to take to ourselves, so 
far as we may, his worthy record as a preacher, editor, 
missionary, and director of missionary work. 

For the degree of Doctor of Canon Law, I present to 
you, the Right Reverend Lemuel Henry Wells, until 
the present year Missionary Bishop of Spokane, an alum- 
nus of the class ofi867, Doctor of Sacred Theology . Bishop 
Wells came to Hobart College from three years' service in 
the War of Secession, having already received from Trin- 
ity College the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts con- 
ferred upon those who left their studies for the war; he 
maintained here the position of leadership for which his 
unusual experience had prepared him. Since then, through 
forty years of missionary service on the Pacific slope, he 
has labored truly for the bodies, minds and souls of 
men. From the great harvest of the West, where many 
sow but only the strong may gather, he now returns to 
Alma Mater, bringing his sheaves with him. 

For the degree of Doctor of Laws I present to you 
Talcott Williams, Dean of the School of JournaHsm of 
Columbia University, Bachelor and Master of Arts of 
Amherst College, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws. 
This college, having already recognized by an honorary 
degree the position of Dr. Williams as a journalist of 
international reputation, is happy to receive him again 
as the representative of a great University to which we are 
attached by ties of sympathy and admiration. Hobart 
College now records once more in this way her signal 
esteem for an extensive and accurate scholarship which 
furnishes but does not fill a mind devoted to the broadest 
interests of the common weal. 



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For the degree of Doctor of Laws I present to you 
Marion LeRoy Burton, President of Smith College, 
Bachelor of Arts of Carleton College, Bachelor of Divinity 
and Doctor of Philosophy of Yale, Doctor of Divinity, 
Doctor of Laws. A brilliant career (which must have 
begim in extreme youth) has brought Dr. Burton through 
many phases of success — as teacher, preacher, adminis- 
trator — to a proud eminence as the head of the largest 
community of college women in this coimtry. Hobart 
College pays Dr. Burton today a tribute merited already 
by a splendid record and high position, but likely, we 
believe, to be more amply justified by the future services of 
a man of keen interest in educational problems and of 
great persuasive and executive power. 

For the degree of Doctor of Laws I present to you 
John Huston Finley, Commissioner-elect of Education 
of the State of New York, Bachelor of Arts and Master of 
Arts of Knox College, Doctor of Laws. As a student of 
political science, as Secretary of the State Charities Aid 
Association and as Professor of Politics at Princeton, as a 
magazine editor and writer in prose and verse, as President 
of Knox College and of the College of the City of New 
York, President Finley has completed a tale of services 
long enough to fill the lives of most men. It is our 
privilege, however, to welcome him today as head of the 
educational system of this State. And we welcome him 
not only as an officer to whom we pay a willing allegiance. 
Of the good religion of friendship Dr. Finley has long been 
an unconscious but happy priest. For the various institu- 
tions which he will seek to unite in effective public service, 
he will be himself a bond. 



Installation of the President 47 

Dr. Peters: Nothing could be more fitting than to 
close these exercises with the singing of the h5niin "O God 
our help in ages past, our hope for years to come," to be 
followed by the benediction by the Right Reverend 
William David Walker, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Bishop of 
Western New York, after which the procession will form 
and proceed to the luncheon room. 

HYMN 
O God, our help in ages past, 

Our hope for years to come, 
Our shelter from the stormy blast 

And our eternal home: 

Under the shadow of Thy throne 

Thy saints have dwelt secure; 
Sufficient is Thine arm alone, 

And our defense is sure. 

Before the hills in order stood. 

Or earth received her frame. 
From everlasting Thou art God, 

To endless years the same. 

A thousand ages in Thy sight 

Are like an evening gone; 
Short as the watch that ends the night 

Before the rising sun. 

Time, like an ever-rolling stream, 

Bears all its sons away; 
They fly, forgotten, as a dream 

Dies at the opening day. 

O God, our help in ages past. 

Our hope for years to come, 
Be Thou our guide while life shall last, 

And our eternal home. 



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Bishop Walker: Unto God's gracious mercy and 
protection we commit you. The Lord bless you and keep 
you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be 
gracious unto you ; the Lord Hft up His countenance upon 
you and give you peace, wisdom and grace, through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Amen. 



LUNCHEON AT WILLIAMS HALL 

Luncheon was served at one o'clock in Williams Hall. Covers were 
laid for over three hundred and fifty guests and the Hall was filled. 
Seats had been arranged on the running track and the students of Hobart 
College and William Smith College occupied these on opposite sides of 
the Hall. During the luncheon they sang the songs of the respective 
Colleges. There were also seated- in the gallery many who availed them- 
selves of the opportunity to listen to the unusual array of speakers. 

Grace was said by the Right Reverend William D. Walker, D.D., 
D.C.L., LL.D., Bishop of Western New York. 

Mr. Henry A. Prince of the class of '82, also member of the Board 
of Trustees, presided. 

Mr. Prince : My friends, I wish again to bid you wel- 
come, and I trust my voice will carry that message to you 
all. 

We are met together today to celebrate among ourselves 
and with the presence and assistance of our welcome and 
honored guests what we might call the confirmation 
service wherein our President has taken upon himself the 
responsibilities and vows that, in a sense, have up to this 
time been made for him by others. 

We have a coUege here that is older than some of your 
colleges that are larger, and it is larger, perhaps, than some 
that are older, but younger than most that are larger. We 
have, however, a feeling that we may claim a place in the 
family of educational institutions whose ideals are the 
production of the highest type of citizenship, the best 
individuality, the highest ideals and the true culture. 
The scheme of the founders of the college has been nobly 
carried on through prosperity and adversity. At times 
it has depended, as of late, upon the splendid devotion, 
faith and vision of such men as Dean Durfee. In the 



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past it has been true, as it is today, that — I am able to 
speak of the past — that we have sat at the feet of prophets 
and we have caught from their devotion to their tasks in 
this small college something of the vision, something of 
the breadth of view, I trust, that made their lives an 
inspiration to the men who sat under them. We have 
met with the disappointment of the loss of a president 
whose achievements were great during his incumbency, 
and the college has been carried through a period of 
imcertainty until we have succeeded in obtaining the man 
whom we desire. There are those present who have 
known the college through all these vicissitudes, and I am 
going to ask you to listen to the first one of those in the 
person of the Reverend Elwood Worcester, of Boston. 

ADDRESS BY DR. WORCESTER 
After all the eloquent and noble words we have heard 
today, my words will be few and simple, especially as I 
have no idea they will be heard anyway. 

I imagine that perhaps hardly anybody here has more 
reason for pleasure and satisfaction in the celebration of 
this event than I have personally. It is always a desire 
of OMTS that our friends should also be friends among 
themselves. All my life long I have felt a friend toward 
Geneva. How my friendship began I could not exactly 
say. I remember being brought here first as a child about 
twelve years old by my uncle, Mr. MacDonald, who 
thought that Geneva was in many respects the most 
attractive town he had ever seen in America. 

Although my relation to the college is only that of an 
adopted son, in that I hold the degree which I have always 
very highly prized, I have had a friendship of many years 
with the president and different members of the Hobart 



Installation of the President 51 

faculty and trustees. Hobart has been very fortunate in 
this respect: there are very few small colleges in this 
country that have commanded the services of such men 
as you have, and those small colleges have not kept such 
men very long. They have them for a few years until 
other people find out about them and then they take them 
away. You have been extremely fortunate in that 
respect, having men of greatest eminence not only as 
scholars, but also as teachers, whom on account of some 
charm of the life in this town you have been able to keep 
for generations. 

My friendship for Mr. Powell is also a very personal one. 
I have known Mr. Powell as a brilliant and a versatile 
writer, as a devoted clergyman and preacher and pastor, as 
a friend and helper ; but in whatever capacity I have ever 
known Mr. Powell I have always fotind him to be at all 
events a little bigger than his job. Most of you have 
known him for a short time and during those few weeks 
you have found much to admire and much to love in him; 
but I can assure you that as the years pass you will find 
more to admire and more to love, because the foundations 
of Mr. Powell's character are genuine foundations of 
modesty, sincerity, truth, and an unbotmded love for his 
fellowmen. 

Nor would I stand here even for a few moments without 
remembering that this is the third president's inauguration 
at which I have assisted, and I hope that it will be the last. 
When we met here a few years ago to celebrate Dr. 
Stewardson's inauguration we did not have these beautiful 
buildings, nor was William Smith College in existence at 
all. And let us, while we are joyfully looking forward to 
the future, also look back with gratitude to the past, to 
the noble, unselfish labors of Dr. Stewardson and to what 



52 HoBART College and William Smith College 

he has done for this college. Dr. Stewardson's work was 
very largely an educational work. It was to deepen, to 
broaden and to diversify the courses of instruction which 
were given in this college and to add to its material and 
physical plant. Dr. Stewardson was very successful in 
both those regards, and, in fact, I think it would be safe 
to say that there is a larger proportion of professors and 
instructors to the number of students in Hobart College 
than is to be found in any similar institution in the United 
States. I do not believe that such a ratio as that could 
permanently be maintained, nor do I think that our appeal 
to the church or the country will ever be what it might be 
tmtil we are able to show a larger return in the application 
of our means to human life and in timiing out a larger 
body of useful men. That is one of the things to which I 
confidently look forward in the administration of Mr. 
Powell. 

Mr. Powell is a man who has a positive genius for 
friendship, as is proved by the gathering from which we 
have just come and the gathering which we are now 
engaged in. In fact, I know very few men in the United 
States who coiild have brought together the distinguished 
body of men who have graced the occasion today, and I 
feel that with Mr. Powell's genius for friendship and his 
conciliatory character and the ideals that he holds, we are 
now about to enter into a new period of growth and 
development for the college in which we are all so deeply 
interested. 

Mr. Prince: When I came up on the subway from 
Fulton Street to Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, my neighbor 
on the right was reading his Italian paper from left to 
right ; and when I rode on from Brooklyn Bridge to Foiir- 
teenth Street, my neighbor on the right was reading a 



Installation of the President 53 

paper with other characters on it from right to left; and 
when I rode from Fourteenth Street to Forty-Second Street 
where I left the subway, my neighbor on the right was 
reading in characters up and down; and I wondered if 
there was a bit of prophetic suggestion on the eve of an 
occasion such as today's in the evidence of the ethnic 
indigestion that exists so acutely and obviously in New 
York. I took it for granted that there was a suggestion 
to me that I should say to you that I believe it is for 
agencies such as this small college and the other larger 
colleges that are represented here by our guests to struggle 
against this poison which, while it is more acute and 
obvious in New York, nevertheless, I feel pervades to a 
certain extent the cells of the whole organism, and we shall 
seciire, perhaps, a more perfect metabolism if we struggle 
the harder in institutions such as this. 

We have in our neighborhood institutions that are 
doing exactly the same kind of work that we mean and 
try to do here, and we meet them in a spirit of cooperation 
generally; sometimes we meet them in a spirit of sharp 
rivalry as we expect to meet one of them tomorrow after- 
noon in the field in front of us. And I am going to ask 
that we have the privilege of hearing, as a representative 
of one of these institutions here. President Rhees of the 
University of Rochester. 

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT RHEES 
Mr. Toastmaster, President Powell, and ladies and 
gentlemen: Rochester is very proud of the privilege of 
participating in this function, and I may say its pride is 
touched also with something of caution from the con- 
sciousness of the fact that if anything rash is said those 



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voting gentlemen in the gallery will have an opportunity 
tomorrow to make repl}^ 

I was a little bit perplexed by the introduction of your 
Toastmaster, wondering just what the application of that 
ethnic indigestion might be to the remarks that he expected 
to get from me. It reminded me, by the way, of a lay- 
man's confession at a convention that I attended not long 
ago, that he never yet had found occasion to be sorry for 
anything he had not said or had not eaten. Possibly that 
may be the way out of this ethnic indigestion. Certainly 
I think it is a way out of after dinner indigestion. 

There is another thought that comes to me as a possible 
explanation of that somewhat cryptic introduction, and that 
is the fact that both Dr. Powell and I are immigrants. I 
came, Sir, from Massachusetts into western New York, and 
I desire to sayto you that you are the subject of congratula- 
tion for having come as a citizen into this part of our 
glorious country. I say I came from Massachusetts, 
described this morning as that transcendental region that 
bounds part of the eastern comer of New York, and now, 
after thirteen years of residence here, it is possible for me 
without fear to confess that I came with some apprehension 
that I might be leaving the confines of civilization and 
going on a missionary enterprise. You will have a mission 
— a high and exalted one — but not that which is ordinarily 
conceived under the category of missionary endeavor. I 
cannot think of a more wholly charming community in 
which any man's lot can be cast than that which you have 
here in Geneva, in so far as I am able to forecast that 
which you will find here by that which I have found in 
Rochester. There is something peculiarly gentle, pecu- 
liarly sincere, in the hospitality of this western New York 
country. I think it is begotten of an interesting blending 



Installation of the President 55 

of strains in our poptilation. There is not a little from the 
southland that has come up here ; there is a great deal from 
New England that has settled here ; and there has devel- 
oped from the blending of these strains a simplicity of 
sympathetic hospitality that I don't know to be matched 
anywhere in this land. 

WiU you permit me to say further that I think you are 
to be congratulated in your task? When I went to 
Rochester I was rash enough to make the remark that I 
was very glad it was a small college, and the gentleman to 
whom I said this smiled and said, "That is all very well, 
but wait until you grow;" and I infer from some words 
that Dr. Worcester spoke that there is anticipation that 
you will cease to be the president of a small college. God 
speed the day, sir! 

But there is something that is a genuine subject of 
congratulation in the lot of the man who has to deal with a 
relatively small number of students and relatively small 
faculty, in which the problem of education is relatively 
simple. 

Now, remember my friend never had any cause to be 
sorry for anything he had not said. I shall speedily seek 
to emulate his good experience. But one word more 
would I venture to speak, and that is that Rochester looks 
toward Hobart today with the most perfect sympathy of 
congratulation. You build on worthy foundations, sir. 
It has been my fortune to know but two of your predeces- 
sors. I have found them men of the most sincere friendli- 
ness and earnest strength of character and devotion o! 
piupose. It has been a great joy to me today to hear the 
words that have been spoken with reference to Dr. 
Stewardson, a man whose singleness of mind, earnestness 
of purpose, and perfect equipment for his task it would be 



56 HoBART College and William Smith College 

difficult to surpass; and I am confident that in coming 
into the place which he filled you are entering on a heritage 
which will be most auspicious. 

I think it may not be out of place, in spite of the presence 
of one whose name I know you delight to honor, for me 
to say that in looking toward Hobart with congratulation 
today Rochester hopes that through Hobart College there 
may be perpetuated in the educational life of this country 
that sincere devotion to fine culture which has been 
incarnate amongst you in the persons of Professor Nash 
and Professor McDaniels. 

Mr. Prince : We have with us honored guests today 
the representatives of a, number of the prominent colleges 
for women, and we here at Hobart have a college for 
women likewise. I use that word "likewise" advisedly 
because of the distinction that was pointed out on the 
witness stand by 'Rastus, who had given damaging testi- 
mony for the prosecution, and was taken in hand by the 
attorney for the defense, who had observed that he 
sprinkled his testimony with the words "also" and "like- 
wise", and said to him, "'Rastus, I notice that you used 
the words 'also' and 'likewise' all through your testimony." 

"Yes, sir." 

"Well, do you think you know the difference between 
'also' and 'likewise' "? 

"Why, I 'spect I does." 

"Well, 'Rastus, you tell the Court the difference between 
also and likewise." 

Now the examining attorney had been a Justice of the 
Peace and was by courtesy often given the title of judge. 
Erastus thought for a moment, and he pointed to the 
Court and he said: "Well, there is the Court. He is a 



Installation of the President 57 

judge, and you — you are a judge also, but you ain't no 
judge likewise." 

We have a college of which we are proud and our dearest 
hope for its alumnae, who are yet young, and for its under- 
graduates is that they may achieve the distinction that is 
evidenced by the representatives of our sister colleges who 
are here with us today. And I am greatly pleased at 
having been permitted to call upon President Vivian B. 
Small of Lake Erie College to address us. 

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT SMALL 
Mr. Toastmaster, President Powell, and Friends : Last 
spring there appeared in one of our dailies a cartoon, 
in the center of which were two guests at a banqueting 
table, with comrades on either side. One of the guests 
radiated the atmosphere of conviviality. He seemed to be 
sociable with his neighbor. He appeared to be enjoying 
the pleasures of the banquet. He looked genial, happy, 
contented. The other seemed to have lost his appetite. 
He looked morose. He appeared not to be sociable. He 
appeared to be wishing for "a lodge in some vast wilder- 
ness." And below the picture one read: "Who is the 
next speaker?" 

I have been looking abotit among these people trying to 
discover who might be the next speaker, but I see no 
evidences of anxiety whatsoever. That is because on an 
occasion like this we cannot be anything but joyful. We 
are all longing for an opportunity to bring our congratula- 
tions and our felicitations. If we are women, perhaps we 
are longing to get in a word ! 

There is one duty, President PoweU, upon which I think 
you have nob, as yet, been congratiilated — one duty which 
is also a privilege, and that is the joy of attending inaugura- 



58 HoBART College and William Smith College 

tions. We all love to go to parties. We all love to wel- 
come into our fellowship the one who probably is going to 
solve all the problems which we cannot solve. So I con- 
gratulate you upon the pleasures of attending inaugura- 
tions. Sometimes we think that the answer to the 
conimdrum, "Why is a college president?" should be, 
"To help inaugurate other college presidents?" 

And I congratulate you also upon those lions which 
President Finley brought so vividly before us this morning. 
They never were so nimierous or so formidable, especially 
where women as well as men are to be educated, as they 
are today. You are fortunate that there are so many with 
which to prove your prowess. 

In the Western Reserve of Ohio, from which I come, we 
have represented the three types of education which the 
higher education for women has followed throughout these 
many years. We have the coeducational college at 
Oberlin; we have the coordinate college in Cleveland; 
we have the separate college for women in Painesville. 
You have also here in the lake region of New York State 
the same kind of trio. It has been my privilege recently 
to spend a day at Cornell, another at Wells College, and 
another here — coeducation, the separate college for women, 
the coordinate college for women. I have not yet visited 
Rochester, but if I should go in that direction I should 
find another one and then I shoidd have to call it a quar- 
tette. 

I wish to add my congratulations, President Powell, 
to the many which you have already received upon this 
charming six-year-old William Smith College, and I wish 
especially to congratidate you upon the fact that your part, 
your contribution, to the education of women is to be in a 
college of the himianities, if I may use that old-fashioned 



Installation of the President 59 

term. I suppose if I should follow the words of Professor 
James I might say that a college for the humanities is a 
college which is engaged in establishing standards by which 
to judge any kind of a human job, whatever it may be. 
We are thinking too much in these days, I believe, about 
educating for the business of being women and for the 
business of being men. We are getting somewhat astray 
from the heart of the matter in owe plans for educating 
people for the power to earn a living. Let us not forget 
to educate in the supreme art of living itself! President 
Burton's point was well taken when he reminded us that 
we are educating human beings; and while we are edu- 
cating pur girls as human beings, let us try, all of us — ^in 
the Western Reserve, in western New York, all over this 
great country, to bring back, if we can — she has not quite 
gone, but once we feared she had — her who was called in a 
magazine article not long ago, the "vanishing lady!" 
She was a lady who had a mind to understand the needs of 
her generation and a heart with which to meet them ; she 
looked well to the ways of her household and thought it a 
shame to do otherwise; she drew her social lines not by 
what people had but by what they were; she believed 
ostentation to be an impossible vulgarity ; she established 
and maintained in her family standards of taste and of 
reverence which have borne the test of time. 

Lake Erie College, the separate college for women in the 
Western Reserve of Ohio, joins hands with William Smith 
College today across that very little bit of Pennsylvania 
which comes up between us and pledges to you, William 
Smith College, Hobart College, President Powell, its 
cooperation and its friendship. 

Mr. Prince: Throughout its career from the very 
beginning, Hobart College has been fostered not only by 



6o HoBART College and William Smith College 

the communion with which it has happened to be more 
closely affiliated, but also by other communions, and 
especially in the city of Geneva. And I have great 
pleasure in calling upon one who represents those friends 
of Hobart College in the city of Geneva, the Dean of the 
ministers of Geneva, Reverend Doctor W. W. Weller. 

ADDRESS BY DR. WELLER 

Mr. Toastmaster, President Powell, Ladies and Gentle- 
men : It is a real pleasure to join with you in celebrating 
this auspicious event, sanctioned by the Episcopal Church 
which I highly esteem and greatly venerate. There is 
not such a wide difference after all between the communion 
to which I belong — ^the Presb3rterian Church — and the 
Episcopal Church. We perpetuate our minor differences 
here at home, but on the foreign field that is impossible. 
For instance, you will recall that not long since one of 
the Bishops of the Episcopal Church, in speaking about 
this impossibility, said that in China when they try to 
translate into Chinese the term "Presbyterian Church," 
which is, the church of the ruling elder — all they can make 
out of it is "the church of the bossy old man" ; and when 
they endeavor to translate into Chinese the "Episcopal 
Church", which is the church of the Bishop — the best 
that they can do is to render it "the church of the kicking 
overseer." 

It has been my privilege to enjoy such a delightful 
association through all these years with the alimmi, the 
trustees who reside here, the faculty, and many of the 
students, that I claim, although I have not the honor of 
being a Hobart graduate, that I am a Hobart man. In 
fact, I am just like the Irishman who, when asked where he 
was bom, said, "I was bom nine miles out of Dublin, but 



Installation of the President 6i 

if I had it to do over again I would have been born in 
DubHn." I did the next best thing, however, for myself, 
and the best for my son, who is now reveling in "these 
classic halls, these happy walks and shades." 

Hobart is a small college, but I assure you, Mr. Presi- 
dent, you have come to one of the biggest little colleges that 
I know anything about. We believe in the small college 
for the particular work that it has to do. There is that 
close and intimate relationship between the faculty and 
the students, I have observed here, that does not often 
exist in the larger institution. A few days ago, the state- 
ment was made that a student of a great eastern university 
in crossing the campus, met a professor who noticing that 
the youth appeared lonely and forlorn — I presume he was 
a freshman — said to him, "Are you looking for someone?" 
And the youth replied, "No, I am not looking for anyone. 
I don't know anyone this side of the Rocky Mountains." 

Hobart has an influence out of all proportion to its real 
size. We shall have an additional evidence of its prowess, 
we believe, in a short time. One of the students said to 
me yesterday — I hope the President will not listen to this — 
"the really important event in connection with this 
inauguration occurs tomorrow". The trophy dazzles us 
and lures us, but tomorrow we must make it ours. Let 
that be our hope and our endeavor. 

I wonder sometimes whether Geneva fully appreciates 
the wise and beneficient administration of an institution 
like this in its effect upon the city itself. We may not 
reaUze it, but Geneva is an important educational center. 
Why, think of it ! In a population of a little more than 
twelve thousand there are at least two hundred college 
bred men — ^not men who have passed through a year or 
two of college life, but men who hold a degree from an 



62 HoBART College and William Smith College 

institution. Our University Club numbers almost one 
hundred and twenty-five members, each of whom holds a 
degree from a college or a professional school ; and we have 
a College Women's Club of fifty members. This gives 
Geneva a tone, it imparts a certain atmosphere. And we 
are greatly indebted to this institution, Mr. President, to 
the Experiment Station, oiu" High School, but particularly 
to these twin colleges — if I may be allowed that expres- 
sion — of Hobart and William Smith. 

We assure you, Mr. President, that you will hold a large 
place in our hearts. You have already established your- 
self there and we wish for you the largest success. This 
day is the beginning of what we believe will be a great 
administration in the life of these two institutions, and it 
is our hope and our prayer that under your guiding 
influence and inspiring leadership these halls will be 
thronged and that the small college will grow larger. So 
may Hobart in the future as in the past send out an ever- 
increasing nimiber of young men, strong, stalwart, well- 
equipped to engage in the battle of life and to bring blessing 
to the world; and may the institution on yonder ridge 
continue to send out yoiing women, strong, and fair as 
they are strong, to bless mankind, to grace by their 
feminine charm all the circles in which they move; that 
through Hobart and William Smith this city — Geneva the 
fair, the beautiful — our community — yes, the world, may 
enjoy the touch of the life that is lived here in our midst. 

Mr. Prince : Very many compliments have been said 
today of Geneva and of its chann which have been appre- 
ciated, I know, by the residents of Geneva and those who 
are former residents of Geneva ; and yet when this morn- 
ing the climate was as it was, I felt that we would no 
longer be able to say that Geneva was a place where 



Installation of the President ' 63 

"every prospect pleases and only man is vile," but proba- 
bly man, vUe as he was, was standing very well up as com- 
pared with the weather at that time — of course, I use 
"man" in the strictly specific sense, because here at Hobart 
on the distaff side, we are yoimg and comely without 
exception. 

I know that you will feel as I do that with so many 
representatives of the women's colleges here it is a pleasure 
to have from them the point of view of the educator of 
that side of the human race, and I know that, therefore, 
you will thank me for having obtained her permission to 
call now upon Dean King of Pembroke College, Brown 
University. 

ADDRESS BY DEAN KING 

Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- 
men : I have come a long distance to bring the greetings 
of the Women's College in Brown University, a sister 
college to your affiliated college. Whether it is to be a 
sister college to Hobart I am too modest to decide. 

I have been particularly impressed today with the fact 
that you are proud of your affiliated college. Some 
universities and colleges which maintain an affiliated 
college are not equally proud of that institution, or, 
perhaps, are not so eager to express their pride. 

The affiliated college is a necessity in our coimtry. We 
have in various parts of our country districts where 
coeducation is impossible. We have also districts where 
there is not sufficient money for an independent women's 
college. When that district is so fortunate as to possess 
a fine college of the type of Hobart College, then there is 
an opportunity through an affiliated college to give the 
young women of that section an education. 



64 HoBART College and William Smith College 

To develop an affiliated college is a most interesting and 
absorbing piece of work. First, because the affiliated 
type of college is growing. When I went to work in this 
business there were only five such colleges — Barnard, 
and Brown, and Radcliffe, and Western Reserve, and 
Sophie Newcomb; and now we have almost twice that 
number — William Smith, Jackson College, the new college 
at Delaware which is just being built, and now the women 
in Virginia have made up their minds to have an affiliated 
college attached to the old University of Virginia, and in 
these days of feminism when women make up their minds 
to such a move as this, that is the equivalent of laying the 
corner stone of the first building. I see that I have for- 
gotten one college, — the affiliated college connected with 
Richmond College in Virginia. 

There is, moreover, one thing about an affiliated college 
that must appeal to everyone — ^the fact that it is indis- 
pensable to the district in which it is situated. The 
affiliated colleges are colleges which are attended largely 
by local students and it has been proved conclusively by 
Brown and Barnard and Goucher and many other women's 
colleges that the girls who must stay at home and get 
their education largely outnumber the girls who can go 
away and get their education. Brown, in its short history, 
has made it possible for over a thousand women who 
could not otherwise have gone to college to have the 
college education which is now regarded throughout the 
east and the west and the north and the south as essential 
training for the life of the modem woman. 

And there is yet another delightful and satisfying task 
connected with the up-building of the affiliated college. 
We have found in Rhode Island that there are many 
young women who do not go to college because they have 



Installation of the President 65 

not been told what a college education means to women. 
It has, therefore, been our privilege, and the privilege of 
the friends of the college, to be missionaries and to 
spread the truth in various ways to the Rhode Island 
girls and later to watch with joy the increasing interest 
in college going throughout our state. No college out- 
side of our state would feel this same interest. 

For these three reasons I have thoroughly enjoyed my 
work in trying to build up an affiliated college and there- 
fore, in extending my hearty congratulations to you, Mr. 
President, as you assume yotu- new office, I wish to say to 
you that if you find as much pleasure and gratification in 
that one department of your work, William Smith College, 
as I have found in my work at the Women's College in 
Brown University, I know that you will be amply repaid 
for all your labor. 

Mr. Prince : This has not much to do with what has 
been said, but I was amused at the instruction which 
the office boy who had just graduated into a higher po- 
sition was giving the new incumbent office boy in a law 
office. He was showing him around in the library 
among the various digests — ^which he told him were health 
books- — and he came across the different volumes that 
ran, for instance the first one ran from "Action" to "An- 
tagonist," and so on down the line. When he came to the 
one that ran from "Tender" to "Turnout" the new in- 
cumbent asked the office boy what that meant. "Well," 
the office boy said with his ready superiority, "that 
is a brief story of a summer flirtation." 

I don't know whether that has the slightest bearing 
upon the feminine question. If it does, however, I know 
that whatever bearing it has will be amply explained by 
the next speaker. 



66 HoBART College and William Smith College 

I do wish, however, in introducing the next speaker to 
express the regret that we all feel at what is going to prove 
our inability from lack of time to hear all of the guests 
whom we would like to hear from, and at the same time 
to express oiir great pleasure at being able to hear from 
President Judson of Chicago. 

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT JUDSON 
Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- 
men: To save my life, I can't see the bearing of that 
summer flirtation story on my speech. 

This has been a very delightful occasion until now. I 
have especially enjoyed the music that has floated down to 
us from above ; and in saying that I make no reflection on 
the vocal solos that have come from underneath the 
balcony; but I have especially enjoyed the charming 
music of these young ladies on the other side. It makes ic 
perfectly plain for the first time what was meant in saying 
that men are a little lower than the angels. 

There is to my mind a certain fitness possibly in being 
permitted to be present on this auspicious occasion. I 
have the honor of being a native of the State of New York, 
and, in fact, I was thirty-five years old before I ever got 
west of Buftalo; and up to that time, of course, with the 
rest of the community, I supposed there was nothing west 
of Buffalo. Well, we think in Chicago that there is some- 
thing west of that part of the world. Some years ago I 
had a young man in one of my classes who put to us an 
odd point of view. I don't remember now in what connec- 
tion. He said, "You notice the farther you go west from 
the Atlantic seaboard the broader-minded and the more 
intelligent the people are." I said, "Yes, that is interest- 
ing. Wejike to believe that in Chicago. Where do you 



Installation of the President 67 

come from?" "Oh," he said, "I Uve in California." 
However that may be, the universities and the colleges 
throughout that great western part of our republic are 
performing an important function in developing social life, 
and wherever you go among those colleges you will find 
many in their faculties and governing boards who have 
come from eastern colleges. It was my privilege to be 
for several years a member of the faculty of the State 
University of Minnesota, and one of my colleagues whose 
long life in that state was a benediction, whose power as a 
thinker, as a man, as a scholar is marked today on that 
great State University, was a graduate, sir, of Hobart 
College. I refer to Professor William W. Folwell, of the 
class of '57 of this college. 

I have heard quite a bit about this coordinate college of 
yours. We don't have that in Chicago. We don't find 
it necessary to know whether a student is a man or a 
woman. A student is a student anyway. But I am 
interested in this coordinate college. Mr. President, I 
don't know what these girls are going to do to you. I 
could have spoken more confidently on a question like 
that some years ago, but I can't now. I have noticed that 
one's knowledge of what women are and are likely to be 
is about in the inverse ratio of one's age. I don't know 
anybody who knows all about that subject unless he may 
be a college sophomore. Some years ago it was my 
pleasure to be a student in what is now the Geneva High 
School, then known by another name, where I begun the 
humanities — ^my Latin and Greek — ^under the guidance of 
one of the ablest, most intelligent and most successful and 
inspiring teachers it was ever my fortune to know — a 
gentleman whose name you will find on the alumni list and 
faculty list of this college, my good friend Professor Vail. 



68 HoBART College and William Smith College 

We had to write compositions in that school — or essays — 
I don't know what they call them now — and the boys had 
to learn theirs and recite them from the platform. And I 
remember very well the teacher's holding the manuscript 
of my little speech while I was reciting it from the platform, 
and smiling. I wondered what in the world was foimd to 
laugh at ; I thought it was a pretty good speech. When 
I got to my place on the floor and stood at my desk after 
the fashion of that time, the teacher said, "How do you 
spell women?" Well, I knew how I had spelled it in my 
composition, and promptly answered, "w-o-e-m-e-n." I 
coiildn't imagine then why my classmates in the school 
seemed to think it was odd. 

Mr. President, that is not the forecast I make for you 
in this women's college. I know that women in the college 
have one function that I regard as vital in every sound 
college. They can use an influence that no man can use 
towards standards of good taste, towards standards of high 
character, towards standards of clean conduct. That 
influence is something that you will value, I know, in the 
coming history of this college, and that is what the women 
mean in the life of every American college which is per- 
mitted to have them in its student body. 

Sir, you have here a college — I don't care whether it is 
small or whether it is large — it is a college and not a univer- 
sity, and the difference is in the emphasis. The univer- 
sity says "Knowledge always, and training, yes"; the 
college says, "Training and knowledge". The first 
thought of the college is on character. And if your young 
men and women can be taught to live in a straight line and 
instinctively to do the right thing when it comes, and not 
the wrong thing, then it matters little what knowledge they 
forget, because they have that other thing which is price- 
less, above all rubies, and that is character. 



Installation of the President 69 

I congratiilate you, sir, upon this occasion. 

Mr. Prince: "We should deplore growth in numbers 
unless it were accompanied with steady increase in quality 
of students. The real test arid measure of an institution's 
efficiency are not the number of students enrolled,*, the size 
of its endowment, or the magnificence of its physical 
equipment. The true test and measure are to be found 
in the productive scholarship of the institution's teachers 
and in the quality of the men and women who go out with 
the stamp of the institution's approval upon them." 

I am not reading from President Powell's address, but 
I am reading from the annual report of Nicholas Murray 
Butler, the President of Columbia University; and when 
men begin at the large colleges and at the small colleges 
to speak of that element in education as the one important 
thing, we at Hobart, small though we be, may reckon 
ourselves as within the fellowship of those who are striving 
for a common end. 

I have great pleasure, therefore, in calling upon the 
representative of another institution not large but doing 
the same kind of work that we at Hobart are trying to do, 
and I have pleasure in introducing President Luther of 
Trinity College, Hartford. 

Dr. Luther: Mr. Toastmaster and Mr. President: 
There are, indeed, many reasons why I can feel myself 
much at home here at Hobart College. The institution 
dear to your hearts and the institution first in my own 
thought are very much alike — founded within one year of 
each other, interchanging officers and students quite fre- 
quently, each of them a church college in the sense that it 
is a part of the contribution which churchmen are willing 
to make toward education in this country. They have 
traveled the same road ; they have fought the same lions ; 



70 HoBART College and William Smith College 

they are engaged in the same sort of conflict now ; they are 
meaning to do about the same sort of work. I feel myself 
very much at home here. There is not very much differ- 
ence between the purple and orange of Hobart and the 
blue and gold of old Trinity. They look very much alike, 
only the blue and gold a little dusky. And if you will 
let me go a little further along that line, when I was myself 
an imdergraduate and fought and bled and died — or tried 
to — for old Trinity, we fought under the green and white 
which now your girls in the sister institution have adopted 
for their colors. 

So I suppose, President Powell, that you and I have 
about the same kind of a job, and I can't help thinking 
what I felt nine years ago when I was inaugurated and 
when I set out upon this path which I have followed with 
more or less lack of success and disappointment now nearly 
half a score of years. In some respects your job isn't 
like mine. We haven't any affiliated college. I am rather 
glad of it. I am distinctly glad! For personally I have 
always been immensely afraid of that section of the human 
race which is represented up there in the gallery. I have 
thought perhaps I never had enough experience, having 
fortunately met the very best and most perfect of her sex 
in about the first girl that I ever saw. She took me in 
charge and has kept me carefully secluded ever since. So, 
President Powell, as to that side of your duties I can only 
say Heaven help you! I can't. 

I don't suppose I can help you anyhow. I can mention 
two or three things that are worth thinking of. Nine 
years ago I was inaugurated president of a small college 
very much like Hobart, with very much the same problems ; 
and for about fifteen minutes I was the youngest college 
president in New England, where there are twenty-two 



Installation of the President 71 

collegiate institutions, I believe. In fifteen minutes I had 
a junior. That was nine years ago. I was the youngest 
of them all — of the whole twenty-two — and now I have 
only fowc seniors in New England. This ought to be a 
good problem for a Professor of Mathematics : if you can 
do up seventeen college presidents in nine years, how long 
will it take to do the other five? 

I don't know whether I should mention this to you, 
President Powell: You are going to have considerable 
of a time. Let me mention one man that is sure to come 
to you. He will come into your office and will begin his 
remarks by this: "When I was in college," and he wiU 
tell you how much better things were then. Now, Presi- 
dent Powell, they weren't. I was in that gang myself. 
I know what sort of students they had forty years ago in 
college. I know what sort of men these fathers of your 
undergraduates were — and presimiably still are; and I 
want to teU you the college boy of 19 13 is a better fellow, 
a cleaner fellow, a straighter fellow than his father, and 
the boy of 19 13 gets educationally more than the under- 
graduate of forty years ago did. This man comes to you. 
President Powell, and says, "Now when I was in college 
we had such and such things. We had to do everything in 
the catalogue. They turned out men in those days." 
And you ask him, "How do you prove they were so much 
better then"? And finally he will have to say, "Oh, I 
was there myself; look at me!" Oh, no! College has 
improved as the years have gone on, and men are better, 
and students study better than they did forty years ago. 

President Powell, I must not delay this audience nor 
you. There are some great pleasures in your life, and the 
greatest of them aU, it seems to me, is the pleasure of 
association with yotmglife. So long as you shall devote 



72 HoBART College and William Smith College 

your own services to this kind of work for the world you 
will have the pleasures of association with young life; 
and as the years go by, there will come to you, again and 
again, the sweetest thing that ever can come to teacher or 
professor or president, the confession from some man 
younger than yourself that something that you said or 
did helped him; a statement from some one of your 
former pupils that you have been of ser\4ce to him — 
helped him. That is the thing that comes to the life of the 
old teacher — the life of the man that has spent his whole 
life in college or school work, or a large part of it — ^that 
comes out of the past. And it makes less difference 
whether you increase your endowment as much as you 
want to — you won't get all you want ; whether you put up 
all of the buildings that you wish — and you won't put up 
quite as many as you woiild like ; and whether you increase 
your attendance so your catalogue is as thick as you want 
it — and it won't be quite as thick as you woiild like to have 
it — when you succeed along all those lines, my dear friend, 
in those years that are close at hand and in which I have 
only nine steps in advance in our march towards whatever 
happens to us next — when you have all this success in 
buildings and endowments and students and equipment 
that 3^ou are praying for — or as near all the whole of it 
as is good for man to have — ^may you have this other 
thing — this consciousness, this confession from old pupils 
that you have done something for them. And when the 
years thicken about you and you sit in a rocking chair in 
the sunshine thinking of the days that are gone, excused 
from further work for the world, it will be a pleasant thing 
to see this long procession of strong-limbed, stalwart youth 
— always young to you — ^marching past your seat and 
saluting you as you sit waiting for death, their leader, 



Installation of the President 73 

their teacher, their friend. That is joy, sir, and it is joy 
no man taketh from you ! 

Mr. Prince : It is not only from the east that we have 
friends: we have them from the north and from the 
south and from the west as well. And eliminating myself, 
as I conceive it to be my duty now to do for the rest of the 
afternoon, I beg leave to call upon President Thwing of 
Western Reserve to say to us a few words. 

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT THWING 
Mr. President : We are all happy in the oneness of this 
occasion. All of us who chance to be present are living 
primarily for these boys and for these girls. And while we 
rejoice in this hour, in its significance and prophesies, we 
also know that it is for you girls and you boys, primarily, 
that the college exists, therefore, I do want to say a 
word to you, for this occasion means the most to you. 

Some phrases used in the formulas for conferring degrees 
were most happily chosen. In one formula, addressed to 
a very dear friend of mine, was used the phrase "extensive 
and accurate knowledge." Most happ)^ and exact 
phrase ! To know much is important; but accurate 
knowledge is more important. Accurate knowledge! 
The great bane of intellectual interpretation and under- 
standing is slovenliness. The primary need is to see 
exactly what there is to be seen and to express what one 
sees exactly. I want to say to you girls and you boys, be 
accurate! Accurate in your scholarship. A man went 
to a great master and he said, "Master, what motto will 
you give me? I am going to leave Oxford now." And 
the great master said, "Verify your references." Be 
accurate, careftd! 



74 HoBART College and William Smith College 

On this day also another formula bears evidence of a 
primary thing in the college, and that is friendship. 
When John Finley was called the minister or the priest at 
the altar of friendship — also a phrase most happily chosen 
— Professor Tiirk interpreted a chief aim of the college. 
We remember our college friendships, — dearest of all 
friendships outside of the hearthstone. Knit yourselves 
to each other with love in these four years, and the love 
will live beyond the portal academic. 

But fiu"ther I want to say, you girls and you boys in 
the college are to cultivate a sense of wit and humor. I 
get any quantity of fun out of my students, and they get 
more out of me, I presume. I am sure, you, Mr. President, 
and you girls and you boys will work together in having a 
mighty good time. Mrs. Humphrey Ward in the life of 
her father, who also bore the name of his father, Thomas 
Arnold, tells that her father once knew of a tutor at 
Oxford who put this question upon a paper: "What 
became of the locusts of Pharaoh's plague?" And he got 
this answer: "John the Baptist ate them." I want you 
girls and you boys to cultivate wit and fun and humor 
with this great and beloved President. 

The next two speakers were Marion L. Burton, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., 
President of Smith College, and Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S., Dean 
of the School of Commerce of New York University, from whose Depart- 
ment President Powell was called to Hobart and William Smith. Both 
spoke in a very intimate and affectionate way of their relationship with 
President Powell and their high regard for his accomplishments and 
abilities. At the special request of the President and the subsequent 
consent of the speakers, the detailed account of their addresses is omitted. 

Mr. Prince : When Dean Johnson spoke of the difficul- 
ties that faced the trustees and of the interviews that we 
had, I realized what one of my colleagues had had upon 
his shoulders, and I wish to say now that the committee 



Installation of the President 75 

that had in charge the selection of a President have re- 
garded all of this gathering as in a certain way, and 
entirely unconsciously on your part, a tribute, in a way, 
to themselves. We have worked hard and we think we 
have worked well. The product of our work is before you. 
Si monumentum requiris, adspice! 

I think it is fitting that we should deny oiirselves the 
privilege of hearing from many of the others from whom we 
should wish to hear lest we find ourselves in the predica- 
ment or situation which the Kentucky mountaineer 
described. He had been in the habit of going out to water 
the stock in the late afternoon, and having a feud on with 
his neighbors, the Hensleys, he found it very awkward. 
He was peppered at from the hedge every time he went 
out. And finally it annoyed him to the extent that 
although his eyesight wasn't good, he resolved to take his 
gun when he went to the stock field, and he did. And 
there being a rustling in the hedge, he, as he said, sprayed 
the hedge with what biillets were in his arms, and went on 
with his stock. But after a while, becoming curious, he 
walked over to the hedge, and said, in describing it, 
"Why, son, when I got over there I found all those Hen- 
sleys had gone but three." 

Lest we find ourselves in the situation of having the 
Hensleys go off until there are but three, I shall call upon 
one more speaker whom we are all glad to listen to and 
who will especially represent both the Church and the 
Alumni of Hobart College. I call on the Reverend G. A. 
Carstensen, Ph.D. 

ADDRESS BY DR. CARSTENSEN 
I really thought I was safe, although I did hope that 
someone might have the opportunity to say a word of 
welcome in behalf of the alumni to President Powell. 



76 HoBART College and William Smith College 

We feel very proud of oiirselves as alumni of Hobart. 
You heard Dr. Williams speak of the number — the small 
number relatively of college graduates in this country and 
the inverse proportion of their influence. We, of that one 
per cent, of Hobart College are a very small number, so 
that our illustrious character is in equal ratio to the 
inverse character of the representation of college men 
generally in the world or in the United States. I mean by 
that, that if college men generally carry such an influence 
and they are so few, Hoba,rt men, because they are among 
the fewest, are the best men in that few. 

We see a great contrast today between the awkward- 
ness, of which most Hobart alumni are evolutions, and the 
comeliness which William Smith is hereafter to develop. 
When we were here we all belonged to the awkward gang, 
of which you find illustrations up there. It is a great 
thing to think and to believe what is going to happen when 
that awkwardness is going to be tempered by the comeli- 
ness of the coterie at the right. And so, if I may quote 
the Good Book in another sense from what it has been, 
we are setting our affection on things above. William 
Smith is only — not quite seven years old. Something was 
said about Rachel and Leah. Jacob serv^ed seven years 
for Rachel, did he not? And it seemed but a short time 
for the love he bore her; and so seven years seem short 
for the love that Hobart bears to William Smith. 

And now, Mr. President, I just want to say one word 
more from the alumni. There are great colleges founded 
in this country by prayer; William and Mary was so 
founded: Harvard was so founded: So was Williams. 
Some colleges have been founded with money. One 
is in Ithaca: the president of another is here today. 
Leland Stanford of the far west is another. The 



Installation of the President 77 

time was when colleges could be founded pretty- 
well on prayer; and then the time came when peo- 
ple thought that colleges could be founded and fur- 
nished on money. Hobart was one that was founded on 
prayer and we all thought sometimes that the law of the 
survival of the fittest was going to mean the extinction of 
Hobart when money spread the great campus of Cornell 
within almost a stone's throw of beautiful Hobart. But 
now they are beginning to discover in Cornell and have 
discovered in Chicago and will discover it at Leland 
Stanford, that no matter how much money you have 
you can't get along without prayer, and we are beginning 
to find out that while we cannot get along without prayer 
at Hobart the question is, how long are we going to get 
along without money? Hobart, Hamilton, Rochester, 
they all need it ! Hamilton and Rochester are getting it. 
Hobart must get it too. 

I want to express one word of adverse criticism to the 
new president already. He says we are going to make 
Hobart the greatest small college in the country. We are 
not going to do anything of the kind. It is the greatest 
small college in the country already and our task is to let 
people know it. Some colleges may be greater in other 
things, but I tell you one thing we have got at Hobart: 
we have got the best record with the smallest means of 
any college in this country. We have a college that has 
come nearest of all to making bricks without straw. We 
have got the greatest Dean of any college great or small. 
Without a president he administers the college and he gets 
the largest Freshman class for years to welcome the incom- 
ing president. He is the most universally loved man I 
know. 



78 HoBART College and William Smith College 

And another best thing that we have, the best astrono- 
omer of any small college in the country. Hamilton used 
to have that, but Smith Observatory, and Brooks and his 
comets are now in the van. 

I am glad to say that we of the .alumni welcome the new 
president, and we are going to do all that we can to make 
him feel that he has at his back a good, loyal-hearted band 
of earnest supporters, as he already has. So, in behalf of 
the alirnini. President Powell, we bid you welcome. We 
bid you Godspeed. And I would like to have for a toast : 

Hobart, vivat et floreat. 

President Powell, vivat et supersedeat. 

Mr. Prince : Again, my friends, I wish to express on 
behalf of the college our great pleasure at having had you 
with us and our deep appreciation of the good-will that 
is evidenced by your having come here and extended to 
us on this occasion the right hand of fellowship and 
the evidence of friendship. 

And now I ask you please to rise while the benediction 
is pronounced by the Right Reverend Ethelbert Talbot. 

(Bishop Talbot) : The blessing of God Almighty, 
the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and 
remain with you alway. Amen. 

Directly following the luncheon President and Mrs. Powell were at 
home at Miller House and in the evening the President's House was the 
scene of a reception to the delegates and guests. 



DELEGATES 

Harvard University 

John Downer Pennock, A.B., Alumnus, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Yale University 

Chalfant Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History. 
University of Pennsylvania 

Charles Harrison Frazier, A.B., M.D., Dean of the Medical 
School and Professor of Clinical Surgery. 
Princeton University 

Reverend George Black Stewart, D.D., S.T.D., LL.D., Trustee, 
President of Auburn Theological Seminary. 
Columbia University 

Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D., Dean of the School of Journal- 
ism. 
William Wither le Lawrence, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 
English. 
Brown University 

Wilfred Harold Munro, L.H.D., Emeritus Professor of European 

History. 
Lida Shaw King, Litt.D., LL.D., Dean of the Women's College 
and Professor of Ancient Archaeology and Literature. 
Rutgers College 

Walter Taylor Marvin, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy. 
Dartmouth College 

Norman Everett Gilbert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics. 
United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 

Clark Sutherland Northup, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of 
English, Cornell University, Senator of the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society. 
Dickinson College 

WiUiam Lambert Gooding, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and 
Education. 
University of Pittsburgh 

Samuel Black McCormick, D.D., LL.D., Chancellor. 
St. John's College 

Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Honorary Alumnus, 
Washington, D. C. 



8o HoBART College and William Smith College 

University of Vermont 

Guy Potter Benton, D.D., LL.D., President. 
Williams College 

Henry Daniel Wild, A.M., Massachusetts Professor of the Latin 
Language and Literature and Chairman pro tempore of the 
Faculty. 
Bowdoin College 

Kenneth C. M. Sills, A.M., Dean of the College and Winkley 
Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 
Union College 

Charles Alexander Richmond, D.D., L.L.D., President 
Hamilton College 

M. Woolsey Stryker, D.D., L.L.D., President. 
Princeton Theological Seminary 

Reverend Guy Louis Morrill, A.M., Alumnus, Canandaigua, 
N. Y. 
Allegheny College 

Guy Everett Snaveley, Ph.D., Professor of the Romance Lan- 
guages and Registrar. 
General Theological Seminary 

Reverend Arthur Prince Hunt, A.M., B.D., Professor of Chris- 
tian Ethics. 
Reverend Francis Branch Blodgett, A.B., B.D., Professor of 
Old Testament and Apocalyptic Literature. 
New York vState Library 

James IngersoU Wyer, Jr., B.L.vS., M.L.S., Director. 
Auburn Theological Seminary 

Reverend Arthur Stephen Hoyt, D.D., Professor of Homiletics 
and Sociology. 
Colgate University 

Elmer Burritt Bryan, LL.D., President. 
University of Virginia 

Frank H. Dunnington, Alumnus, A.B., B.S., Niagara Falls, 
Ontario. 
Amherst College 

Surges Johnson, A.B., Alumnus, New York City. 
Trinity College 

Flavel Sweeten Luther, Ph.D., LL.D., President. 



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Kenyon College 

Lloyd A. Grigsby, A.B., Alumnus, St. John's Military Academy, 
Manlius, N. Y. 
Western Reserve University 

Charles Franklin Thwing, D.D., LL.D., President. 
Randolph-Macon Woman's College 

Dorothea Clara Morse, A.B., Alumna, Ithaca, N. Y. 
New York University 

Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S., Dean of the School of Com- 
merce. 

Frank Andrews Fall. A.M., Bursar. 
Wesleyan University 

William Arnold Shanklin, L.H.D., President. 
Haverford College 

Isaac Sharp less, Sc.D., L.H.D., LL.D., President. 
Hartford Theological Seminary 

Reverend Claude G. Beardslee, B.D., Alumnus, Hartford, Conn. 
Union Theological Seminary 

Reverend Francis Brown, D.D., Litt.D., LL.D., President. 
University of Michigan 

Warren Plimpton Lombard, M . D . , Sc. D. , Professor of Physiology. 
Mount Holyoke College 

Harriet Manning Blake, Ph.D., Instructor in English Literature. 
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 

William L. Goodwin, Sc.D., Dean of the Faculty of Science. 
Ohio Wesleyan University 

Robert Irving Fulton, A.M., Dean of the School of Oratory. 
College of the City of New York 

Herbert Raymond Moody, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 
Chemistry. 
University of Wisconsin 

Edward Asahel Birge, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Dean of the College 
of Letters and Science. 
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity 

A. J. Parker, Cornell University. 
University of Rochester 

Rush Rhees, D.D., LL.D., President. 

Arthur Sullivan Gale, Ph.D., Fayerweather Professor of 
Mathematics. 

Andrew J. Merrill, A.M., Superintendent of Schools, Geneva. 



82 HoBART College and William vSmith College 

Berkeley Divinity School 

Reverend Anthon Temple Gesner, A.M., Mutter Professor of 
Ethics and Evidences. 
Elmira College 

Alexander Cameron MacKenzie, D.D., LL.D., President. 
Michigan Agricultural College 

Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick, Sc.D., Alumnus, Horticulturist, New 
York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva. 
Alfred University 

Boothe Colwell Davis, Ph.D., D.D., President. 
St. Lawrence University 

Almon Gtmnison, D.D., President. 
Lake Erie College 

Vivian Blanche Small, Litt.D., LL.D., President. 
St. Stephen's College 

Reverend William Cunningham Rodgers, D.D., President. 
Vassar College 

Mrs. Charles Franklin Thwing, A.B., Alumna, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

John F. Ancona, Alumnus, B.S., Secretary of Rochester Tech- 
nology Club, Rochester, N. Y. 
DeLancey Divinity School 

Reverend Thomas Benjamin Berry, A.M., Warden. 
Philadelphia Divinity School 

Reverend Wilham Mansfield Groton, S.T.D., Dean. 
National Academy of Sciences 

Edward Leamington Nichols, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of 
Physics, Cornell University. 
Cornell University 

Thomas Frederick Crane, Ph.D., Litt.D., Sometime Acting 
President. 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

Erastus Hopkins, A.M., Sc.M., Alumnus, Geneva. 
Drew Theological Seminary 

Professor Ismar J. Peritz, Alumnus, Professor of Semitic 
Languages and Literature, Syracuse University. 
Lehigh University 

Right Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, D.D., LL.D., Trustee, 
Bishop of Bethlehem. 



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University of Illinois 

Edmund Janes James, Ph.D., LL.D., President. 
Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. 

Reverend Maxmilian Lindsay Kellner, S.T.D., Professor of 
Literature and Interpretation of the Old Testament. 
Wells College 

Kerr Duncan Macmillan, A.B., B.D., President. 

Mrs. Max Piutti, A.B., Dean. 
University of Minnesota 

George M. B. Hawley, LL.M., Alumnus, Geneva. 
Ursinus College 

Reverend Nevin Daniel Bartholomew, A.B., Alumnus, Penn 
Yan, N. Y, 
Wilson College 

Mrs. Seward Baldwin, A.B., Alumna, Waverly, N. Y. 
Wellesley College 

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A.M., LL.B., Professor of History. 
Syracuse University 

James Roscoe Day, S.T.D., D.C.L., LL.D., President. 
Ohio State University 

Joseph Alexander Leighton, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Philoso- 
phy. 
Smith College 

Marion LeRoy Burton, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., President. 
Johns Hopkins University 

John Martin Vincent, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of European 
History. 
Case School of Applied Science 

Charles Sumner Howe, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., President. 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station 

Frank H. Hall, B.S., Vice-Director. 
Association of Collegiate Alumnae 

Vida Hunt Francis, A.B., Secretary. 
Bryn Mawr College 

Marion Reilly, A.B., Dean. 
GoucHER College 

Joseph S. Shefloe, Ph, D., Professor of Romanic Languages. 



84 HoBART College and V/illiam Smith College 

Clark University 

W. Fowler Bucke, Ph.D., Alumnus, Geneseo State Normal 
School. 
University of Chicago 

Harry Pratt Judson, LL.D., President. 
Keuka College 

Joseph Archibald Serena, A.B., President. 
Clark College 

Radoslav Andre Tsanoff, Ph.D., Instructor in Philosophy. 



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